Governed Quotes

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.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

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

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

The world is governed by opinion.

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

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

An educated people can be easily governed.

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.

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

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

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

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.