Governed Quotes

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. (Plato)
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. View quote
Confucius
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. View quote
William Penn
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. View quote
William Penn
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. View quote
Roberto Assagioli
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. View quote
David McCallum
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. View quote
Daniel Webster
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. View quote
Edmund Burke
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. View quote
Stephen Hawking
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. (Golda Meir)
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. View quote
William Wordsworth
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith