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Governed Quotations
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
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
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
Governed Translations
governed in German is beherrscht, regierte
governed in Swedish is styrd
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