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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
Rudolf Arnheim
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
James Prescott Joule
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
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.
Dick Thornburgh
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.
Clive Barnes
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.
John Yoo
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
Phillip E. Johnson
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
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