Quotes with governed

  • Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
  • A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
  • Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • W. R. Inge It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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  • Daniel Webster The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Seneca A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Frederick the Great An educated people can be easily governed.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dale Carnegie Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Richard Hooker He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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  • Richard Whately Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Golda Meir I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Stephen Hawking 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.
    New Scientist (26 april 2007)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Calvin Coolidge If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
    Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Frederick the Great If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Confucius 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
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Alexander Hamilton 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
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Walter Bagehot It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William Penn Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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