Governed Quotes

422 Governed quotes by 322 unique authors

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed… — Noah Feldman
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to… — Elliott Abrams
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question… — Rebecca MacKinnon
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance. — Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. — Mo Ibrahim
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are… — Levi Woodbury
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are mostly… — Joseph P. Bradley
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and… — Richard Hooker
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon… — Henri Poincare
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a… — Algernon Sidney
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have… — John Yoo
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed… — Dick Thornburgh
Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in… — Dick Thornburgh
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several,… — Walter Kaufmann
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while… — Walter Kaufmann
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that… — Lactantius
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part… — Wilfrid Laurier
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which… — Christopher Alexander
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened… — Michel Martelly
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and… — Conrad Black
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those… — Jasper Fforde
God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford… — John Piper
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance — Anthony Ashley Cooper
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. — Voltaire

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