Governed Quotes

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.

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

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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

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

The world is governed by opinion.

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

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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

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.

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

An educated people can be easily governed.

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

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.

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

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.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

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?

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

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

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

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

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

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

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

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.