Governed Quotes

422 Governed quotes by 322 unique authors

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed… — Wayne Dyer
I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is… — Francis Frangipane
According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws,… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded… — Arthur W. Pink
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. — Maurice Maeterlinck
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty… — Abraham Cowley
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most… — Mark Twain
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to… — Thomas B. Macaulay
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the… — Christian Lous Lange
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle… — Anson Dorrance
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. — Mona Caird
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of… — David George Hogarth
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open… — Vicente Fox
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson

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