Governed Quotes - page 2

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? (Stephen Ambrose)
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. View quote
Clive Barnes
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. View quote
Leland Stanford
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. View quote
James Madison
Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. View quote
Thomas Paine
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function. View quote
Jacques Derrida
If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. View quote
Richard Wilbur
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. View quote
J. G. Ballard
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. (Jacques Delors)
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. View quote
Émile Durkheim
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. View quote
Bonar Law
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? View quote
Susan B. Anthony
The country must be governed by someone who really loves his people and his land, who shares wealth and progress. I have all that, only that I am ignorant. View quote
Pancho Villa
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. View quote
Stephen Crane
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it. View quote
William Penn
Power of auto-suggestion known in the Middle Ages. The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought. The human being individually is also entirely governed by his own thoughts, good or bad. The powerful action of the mind over the body, which explains the effects of suggestion, was well known to the great thinkers of the Middle Ages, whose vigorous intelligence embraced the sum of human knowledge. View quote
Émile Coué
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves... (Samuel Gompers)
A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong. View quote
Gregory Bateson
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. View quote
Bertrand Russell