Quotes about Governed

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Votes: 2

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Votes: 2

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Votes: 2

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. Votes: 2

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. Votes: 2

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Votes: 2

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Votes: 2

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Votes: 2

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Votes: 2

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. Votes: 2

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. Votes: 2

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Votes: 2

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Votes: 2

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Votes: 2

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Votes: 2

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Votes: 2

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. Votes: 2

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Votes: 2

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. Votes: 2

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Votes: 2

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. Votes: 2

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Votes: 2

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? Votes: 2

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Votes: 2

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Votes: 2

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. Votes: 2

The world is governed by opinion. Votes: 0

The world cannot be governed without juggling. Votes: 0

France has usually been governed by prostitutes Votes: 0

The world is governed by love,--self-love. Votes: 0

An educated people can be easily governed. Votes: 0

Government governed least is government governed best. Votes: 0

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye. Votes: 0

I've governed from a consistent set of principles Votes: 0

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. Votes: 0

The human race is governed by its imagination. Votes: 0

Men still have to be governed by deception. Votes: 0

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law. Votes: 0

Those are governed best who are governed least. Votes: 0

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Votes: 0

For the world is only governed by self-interest. Votes: 0

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance. Votes: 0

Government exists only for the good of the governed. Votes: 0

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty Votes: 0

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed. Votes: 0

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Votes: 0

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage. Votes: 0

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. Votes: 0

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. Votes: 0

Voters will decide how they want to be governed. Votes: 0

Woe to that land that's governed by a child. Votes: 0

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed. Votes: 0

Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age. Votes: 0

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people. Votes: 0

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Votes: 0

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. Votes: 0

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy. Votes: 0

To me, a good event is governed by the audience. Votes: 0

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die Votes: 0

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. Votes: 0

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. Votes: 0

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it. Votes: 0

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed! Votes: 0

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. Votes: 0

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. Votes: 0

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. Votes: 0

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero. Votes: 0

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas. Votes: 0

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. Votes: 0

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. Votes: 0

Limitless opportunities abound, governed only by your focus on achieving them. Votes: 0

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. Votes: 0

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. Votes: 0

passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette. Votes: 0

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. Votes: 0

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do. Votes: 0

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy. Votes: 0

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth Votes: 0

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Votes: 0

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? Votes: 0

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. Votes: 0

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time. Votes: 0

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things. Votes: 0

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. Votes: 0

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. Votes: 0

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. Votes: 0

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Votes: 0

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed Votes: 0

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. Votes: 0

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. Votes: 0

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. Votes: 0

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Votes: 0

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles! Votes: 0

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. Votes: 0

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. Votes: 0

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? Votes: 0

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit. Votes: 0

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong Votes: 0

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. Votes: 0

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force. Votes: 0

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world. Votes: 0

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed Votes: 0

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights. Votes: 0

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. Votes: 0

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. Votes: 0

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy Votes: 0

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are. Votes: 0

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety. Votes: 0

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore. Votes: 0

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. Votes: 0

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. Votes: 0

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science. Votes: 0

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. Votes: 0

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. Votes: 0

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. Votes: 0

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap. Votes: 0

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice. Votes: 0

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. Votes: 0

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart. Votes: 0

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. Votes: 0

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible. Votes: 0

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. Votes: 0

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Votes: 0

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. Votes: 0

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. Votes: 0

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Votes: 0

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. Votes: 0

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. Votes: 0

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. Votes: 0

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Votes: 0

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. Votes: 0

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. Votes: 0

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy." Votes: 0

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back. Votes: 0

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Votes: 0

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. Votes: 0

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country. Votes: 0

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility Votes: 0

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. Votes: 0

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Votes: 0

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. Votes: 0

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. Votes: 0

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! Votes: 0

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. Votes: 0

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. Votes: 0

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. Votes: 0

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. Votes: 0

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else Votes: 0

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments Votes: 0

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. Votes: 0

Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love. Votes: 0

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Votes: 0

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe Votes: 0

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. Votes: 0

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. Votes: 0

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. Votes: 0

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Votes: 0

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. Votes: 0

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. Votes: 0

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. Votes: 0

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. Votes: 0

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. Votes: 0

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. Votes: 0

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Votes: 0

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world. Votes: 0

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. Votes: 0

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women. Votes: 0

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. Votes: 0

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. Votes: 0

What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth. Votes: 0

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. Votes: 0

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. Votes: 0

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor Votes: 0

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings. Votes: 0

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed. Votes: 0

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. Votes: 0

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. Votes: 0

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Votes: 0

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over. Votes: 0

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. Votes: 0

As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Votes: 0

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. Votes: 0

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. Votes: 0

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. Votes: 0

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty. Votes: 0

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices. Votes: 0

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. Votes: 0

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Votes: 0

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. Votes: 0

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Votes: 0

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. Votes: 0

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Votes: 0

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. Votes: 0

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men. Votes: 0

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. Votes: 0

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. Votes: 0

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, Votes: 0

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? Votes: 0

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. Votes: 0

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite. Votes: 0

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles. Votes: 0

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason. Votes: 0

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon. Votes: 0

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. Votes: 0

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. Votes: 0

The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others. Votes: 0

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. Votes: 0

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it. Votes: 0

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps Votes: 0

The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians. Votes: 0

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. Votes: 0

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. Votes: 0

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment. Votes: 0

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Votes: 0

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires. Votes: 0

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. Votes: 0

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. Votes: 0

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Votes: 0

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people! Votes: 0

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 governance. Votes: 0

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia. Votes: 0

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. Votes: 0

All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,That I, being governed by the watery moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world." Votes: 0

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance Votes: 0

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. Votes: 0

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. Votes: 0

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance. Votes: 0

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA. Votes: 0

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? Votes: 0

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering. Votes: 0

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind. Votes: 0

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. Votes: 0

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves... Votes: 0

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 their imaginations. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them. Votes: 0

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. Votes: 0

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. Votes: 0

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment. Votes: 0

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution. Votes: 0

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. Votes: 0

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. Votes: 0

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. Votes: 0

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. Votes: 0

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. Votes: 0

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. Votes: 0

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 optional obedience. Votes: 0

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. Votes: 0

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height. Votes: 0

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? Votes: 0

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. Votes: 0

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. Votes: 0

How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this~? Votes: 0

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. Votes: 0

My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special. Votes: 0

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. Votes: 0

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues. Votes: 0

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. Votes: 0

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. Votes: 0

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. Votes: 0

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Votes: 0

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 better than the governed. Votes: 0

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose. Votes: 0

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. Votes: 0

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform. Votes: 0

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent. Votes: 0

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry. Votes: 0

The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions. Votes: 0

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow. Votes: 0

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. Votes: 0

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. Votes: 0

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. Votes: 0

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion. Votes: 0

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed. Votes: 0

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up. Votes: 0

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! Votes: 0

Brexit has shrunk the market opportunities. Exiting trade deals will do the same for the U.S. Those deals must be actively shaped and governed to make growth more inclusive. Votes: 0

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. Votes: 0

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies. Votes: 0

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last. Votes: 0

Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being. Votes: 0

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." Votes: 0

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects. Votes: 0

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger. Votes: 0

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world. Votes: 0

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. Votes: 0

Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science. Votes: 0

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money. Votes: 0

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government. Votes: 0

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Votes: 0

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. Votes: 0

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. Votes: 0

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Votes: 0

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. Votes: 0

People used to recognize it as mood.Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.When you feel sad, just do long running.Then you will know that even mood can be governed. Votes: 0

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Votes: 0

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work. Votes: 0

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol. Votes: 0

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system. Votes: 0

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 governed by force or fraud, or both. Votes: 0

It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad. Votes: 0

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks. Votes: 0

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. Votes: 0

The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self. Votes: 0

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? Votes: 0

"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories. Votes: 0

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. Votes: 0

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises. Votes: 0

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind. Votes: 0

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable. Votes: 0

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed. Votes: 0

Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison Votes: 0

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. Votes: 0

Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative. Votes: 0

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. Votes: 0

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations. Votes: 0

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Votes: 0

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Votes: 0

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair. Votes: 0

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust. Votes: 0

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. Votes: 0

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. Votes: 0

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. Votes: 0

Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being Votes: 0

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Votes: 0

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed. Votes: 0

Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies. Votes: 0

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. Votes: 0

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. Votes: 0

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness. Votes: 0

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves. Votes: 0

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed. Votes: 0

Don't let others influence your life... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self.... That's lesson for self... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life... Votes: 0

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply. Votes: 0

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers. Votes: 0

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." Votes: 0

If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness. Votes: 0

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent. Votes: 0

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law. Votes: 0

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine. Votes: 0

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him. Votes: 0

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world. Votes: 0

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. Votes: 0

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on. Votes: 0

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal. Votes: 0

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 the State in which they are most eager, the worst. Votes: 0

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. Votes: 0

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed. Votes: 0

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization Votes: 0