Governed Quotes

422 Governed quotes by 322 unique authors

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is… — Richard M. Weaver
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. — Theodore Roosevelt
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed… — Theodore Roosevelt
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life… — Peace Pilgrim
It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. — Will Rogers
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the… — Nichiren
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of… — Jules Olitski
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who… — John Cotton
The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All… — Hans von Seeckt
Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance. — Steven Furtick
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very… — George Bernard Shaw
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed… — James Anthony Froude
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.… — Alfred North Whitehead
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science. — Stephen Hawking
An educated people can be easily governed. — Frederick The Great
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society… — Jim Gerlach
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. — Confucius
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be… — Charles Darwin
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed… — Jacques Derrida
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. — Benjamin Disraeli

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