Governs Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn…

— Wendell Berry

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

— Patricia C. Wrede

Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes…

— Jeffrey Tucker

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

— Kanye West

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder…

— Lewis H. Lapham

People make the rules of society, not God.

— Anonymous

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

The dead governs the living.

— Auguste Comte

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The government is worst which governs most.

— James Cook

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau