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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
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
Life
Love
Knowledge
Suffering
Strong
Simple
Three
My Life
Longing
Unbearable
Governed
Passions
Pity
Mankind
Search
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
Government
Great
You
Men
First
Control
Difficulty
Framing
Must
Lies
Oblige
Over
Enable
Governed
Itself
Place
Which
Next
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
War
Democracy
Country
Unless
Tyrant
Must
No Country
Obedient
Head
Perfectly
Highly
Democratic
Well
Makes
Scientific
Governed
Cease
Effectively
Trained
Bureaucracy
Modern
Modern War
Which
Really
Even
Prepared
Prepares
Necessarily
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
Control
Other
Our
Destinies
Possible
Tell
No Control
About
More
Over
Come
Idiots
Governed
Human
Where
Stories
Might
Who
Each
Why
Need
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
Life
Today
Religion
Constitution
Equality
Liberty
Political
Fraternity
Embodied
Indians
Ideal
Ideologies
Governed
Denies
Preamble
Different
Social
Them
Two
Set
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
Impossible
Control
Other
Our
Destinies
Possible
Tell
No Control
About
More
Over
Come
Idiots
Governed
Where
Stories
Might
Fantasy
Who
Each
Why
Need
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.
Stephen Hawking
God
Science
Believe
Universe
Intervene
Laws
Does
Governed
Been
May
Break
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
Happiness
Life
Government
Rights
People
Equality
Liberty
Unalienable
Evident
Recognize
Secure
All People
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
New
Calls
Becomes
New Government
Governed
Denying
Establish
Declaration
Us
Inherent
Right
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
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
Government
You
Men
First
Control
Framing
Must
Oblige
Over
Enable
Governed
Itself
Place
Which
Next
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Government
Women
Ought
Direct
Allowed
Share
Instead
Without
Governed
Any
Representatives
Being
Them
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