Essence Quote by Honore Gabriel Riquet

“The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).”

— Lao Tzu

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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…

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents;…

— John C. Calhoun

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

— Benjamin Tucker

“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the…

— Frank Herbert

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening…

— Salman Khurshid