118 Governed Quotes for You to Enjoy

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato

Politics You Penalties Participate Governed End Up Inferiors Being Refusing Your

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

Wealth Poverty Country Something Badly Well Governed Ashamed

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw

Democracy Better Shall Device Governed Than Deserve

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Nikola Tesla

Human Being Control Waves Though Willful Tossed About Entirely He Like Within Without Governed His Human Being Influences Predetermined Turbulent Sea Actions Appear Float External

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. Alexander Hamilton

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Napoleon Bonaparte

Men Virtues Easily More Through Governed Than Vices

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. Aldous Huxley

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

Few Nothing More Governed Surprising Than Which Many

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. Alan Rickman

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. B. R. Ambedkar

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

World Imagination Those Scenes Governed Very Behind Different Who Imagined

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

Government Definition Without Governed Very Reason Consent Slavery

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

Women Men Emotion Governed Lines Intellect Curves

We can either be governed by fear - fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border - or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that's America at its best. Beto O'Rourke

Best People Enemy Fear Parents Ambition Our Press Kids Out Immigrants Muslims Border Most Make Call Governed America Either Us Aspirations Tear Away Desire

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. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? Alan Rickman

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

Man Science Every Universe Those System Only He Make Principles Governed Discover Fixed Cannot Which Them Basis

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

Wish Universe Once Insect Systems Laws Allow Smallest Governed Created Planets Act Special Whole Nay Satellites Universes

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

Life Voting Principle Governed Breathes Act Foundational Consent

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes Rich Badly Always Governed Being Poor

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights. Mike Crapo

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Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, 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? Susan B. Anthony

Vote Natural First Paragraph Given How Governed Ballot Denied Very Declaration Natural Right Assertion Right Here Consent

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Culture Fear Political Community Way Intimidation Governed Patronage

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