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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

The dead governs the living.
Auguste Comte

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

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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