Governed Quotes

422 Governed quotes by 322 unique authors

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy… — Patrick Cleburne
There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed… — Eustace Conway
Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are… — Jillian Michaels
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of… — Walter Bagehot
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. — Solon
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given… — Thomas Jefferson
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance… — Benjamin Franklin
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have… — John Dickinson
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever… — Jefferson Davis
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying… — Clive Barnes
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried
Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors… — Francois-Noel Babeuf
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. — Plato
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and… — Plato
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part… — Plato
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not… — Publilius Syrus
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men;… — William Henry Harrison
As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea… — Ronald Reagan

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