Governed Quotes

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

The world is governed by opinion.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

An educated people can be easily governed.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

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.

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

Men still have to be governed by deception.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.