Govern Quotes

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
G. I. Gurdjieff

Knowledge, Self, Working

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Vladimir Lenin

Become, Socialism, Turn

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.
Rush Limbaugh

Wants, Rule, Obama

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin

Learn, State, Cook

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius

Difficult, Noble, Families

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle

Different, Two, Nation

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Lord Chesterfield

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Newt Gingrich

Nature, Country, Negative

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown

Women, Men, America

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert

Father, Enough, Sons

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

Danger, Class, Particular

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
Rick Perry

Lives, View, Families

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
Joan of Arc

Time, God, Help

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
Benjamin Netanyahu

State, Israel, Citizens

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Laurence Sterne

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza

Men, Nothing, Words

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
Ron Fournier

Fitness, Why, Start

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Charles de Gaulle

One cannot govern with 'buts'.
Charles de Gaulle

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Find, Left

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Kiam

Men, Rule, Serving

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
Francois Rabelais

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
Stephen Harper

Government, Support, Third

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
Stephen Harper

Time, Government, Support

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
Diane Abbott

Country, Decide, Laws

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert

Two, Contrary, Eccentric

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Jesse Ventura

Government, America, Succeed

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
Antonio Banderas

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
Nigel Farage

Before, Lives, Everyday

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Barry Commoner

Powerful, Point, Production

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