"To be governed ... is to be watched,……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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• To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],… — Athanasius of Alexandria
• It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it… — Samuel Johnson
• The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema,… — Charles Hodge
• I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author… — Anne Bronte
• Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have… — Sri Aurobindo
• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were… — Victor Davis Hanson
• The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine… — Samuel Johnson
• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing… — Plato
• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger,… — Horatio Nelson
• England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk.… — John Garfield
• Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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