Governs Quotes

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Powerful, Rich

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde

America, President, Forever

That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Government

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato

Wants, Teach, Govern

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Nature, Justice, Humanity

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller

Strength, Ship, Skill

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
Deepak Chopra

Body, Activity, Becomes

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas

Life, Another, Dead

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo

Law, Seems, Actions

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
Pat Robertson

Best, Government, Thought

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

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag

Guilt, Logic, Innocence

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
John Jay Chapman

Someone, Corruption, Else

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch

Reality, Media, Logic

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann

Best, Government, True

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Francois Hollande

Finance, Real, Face

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Law

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Todd Gitlin

Power, Government, Book

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre

Society, Individual, Rules

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
Thomas More

Country, Language, Though

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Real, Free

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
Polykarp Kusch

Beauty, Truth, Science

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Moshe Sharett

Country, Language, Culture

The dead governs the living.
Auguste Comte

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
Rupert Sheldrake

Faith, Science, Real

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
Lactantius

Understand, Same, Energy

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Nature, Him, Study

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.
Nicholas Culpeper

Hour, Planet, Leaves

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Wilhelm Ostwald

Theory, Century, Proof

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
John McDonald

Power, Desire, Force

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