Governing Quotes
228 quotes by 192 authors
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[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the…
— Jonathan Schell
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We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there…
— Thomas Berry
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
— Wendell Willkie
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If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how…
— Confucius
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All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human…
— Thomas Berry
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And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all,…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing…
— Leon M. Lederman
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Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away…
— Eve Ensler
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If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
— Oren Lyons
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In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines…
— Jacques Bertin
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Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is…
— Laozi
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Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he…
— George Washington
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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...
— Barbara Tuchman
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He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property,…
— Charles James Fox
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I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
— Tony Abbott
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of…
— George Washington
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Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses…
— Nikki Haley
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The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over…
— Thurman Arnold
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Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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