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Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it. WILHELM REICH — Wilhelm Reich

It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions. — Nicholas Carr

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country. — Rick Mercer

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. — William J. Clinton

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. — George Eliot

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose. — Richard Lamm

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live. — Melissa Etheridge

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. — Karl Kautsky

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them? — Voltaire

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised. — Roger Goodell

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. — Charles James Fox

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest. — Pliny The Elder

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control. — T.F. Hodge

A man may rule his household,
And a King govern his land,
But Death walks in the thrall of Cephrael's Hand. — Melissa McPhail

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca The Younger

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity. — Santosh Kalwar

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. — Susan B. Anthony

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? — Jonathan Safran Foer

I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers. — Meredith Duran

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species. — Daniel Quinn

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them. — Geoffrey West

Riches either serve or govern the possessor. — Horace

They that govern the most make the least noise. — John Selden

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. — Vladimir Lenin

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. — Mary Baker Eddy

If men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others? — Philip K. Dick

Should Christians govern and are Christians the only ones who are truly qualified to govern, and the answer is, of course, Yes. — Bob Enyart

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. — Mario Cuomo

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will. — Thomas Jefferson

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. — Lee Iacocca

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. — Themistocles

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't. — Charles Colson

Grammar, which can govern even Kings. — Moliere

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. — Vladimir Lenin

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Choose your own mental state, rather than letting the environment govern it. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer. — Pavan Choudary

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. — Katharina Zell

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else — Kwame Nkrumah

The king reigns but does not govern. — Louis Adolphe Thiers

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. — Robert Bork

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves — George Soros

Those who think govern those who labor. — Marshall Sylver

I am a queen because I know why how to govern myself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them. — Ivan Pavlov

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. — Thomas Carlyle

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. — Henry Ward Beecher

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it. — Zhuangzi

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. — Thomas Jefferson

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. — William Penn

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis De Sade

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself. — Benjamin Whichcote

Life presents many challenges ... Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose. — Lee Monroe

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. — Laurence Sterne

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. — George MacDonald

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite. — John Milton

If you want to govern the people,
You must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead people,
You must learn how to follow them. — Lao-Tzu

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved. — Laozi

There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone. — Enrique Pena Nieto

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. — William Shakespeare

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? — Frank Herbert

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule. — John Brown

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign. — Stephen King

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — Benjamin Disraeli

Fairness, he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. — Mitch Albom

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed — William Penn

Those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. — Plato

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? — Benjamin Franklin

awareness of what should be does not always govern the choice of one's heart as to what will be. — C.S. Marks

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. — Kirstin Chen

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte

He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing. — Lao-Tzu

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats. — Rick Perry

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself? — Francois Rabelais

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. — Pythagoras

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. — Victor Kiam

The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion. — Marcus Aurelius

Names govern the world. — Hannah More

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile. — Pope Francis

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world? — Carlo Rovelli

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. — Augustus William Hare

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. — Thomas Jefferson

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president. — Nina Easton

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. — William Jennings Bryan

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. — Antonio Banderas

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness. — Joel S. Goldsmith

How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. — Oriana Fallaci

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility! — Pope Francis

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton

I am a queen because I know how to govern myself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. — Laozi