Governed Quotes

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

Politics, End, Refusing

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

Country, Poverty, Wealth

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

Happiness, Attitude, Mental

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

Democracy, Deserve, Shall

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.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Knowledge

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.
Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Government, Reason, Slavery

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

Different, Behind, Scenes

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

God, Men, Tyrants

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Through, Virtues

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Few, State, Laws

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rich, Sometimes, Poor

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberty, Greater, Appetite

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.
Thomas Paine

Science, Cannot, Universe

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

Women, Men, Emotion

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

Life, Resentment, Endless

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams

Feelings, Reason, Mankind

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.
Charles Darwin

Special, Wish, Whole

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

Science, Universe, Abstract

An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great

Educated, Easily

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.
B. R. Ambedkar

Life, Religion, Equality

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

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.
James Madison

Great, Men, Government

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

Time, Revolution, Impossible

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

Nothing, Few, Surprising

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.
Stendhal

Love, Music, Less

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Muhammad Iqbal

Passion, Instinct, Primarily

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

Wisdom, Mankind

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