Quotes with governed

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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Günter Grass 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.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Penn Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • David Hume Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Adrian Cronauer Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Solon Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Clive Barnes 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.
    Clive Barnes
    English writer and critic (1927 - 2008)
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  • J. G. Ballard The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Angela Carter The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Napoleon The human race is governed by its imagination.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • John Ruskin The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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