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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
The world is governed by opinion.
— William Ellery Channing
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God.
— James Prescott Joule
Government exists only for the good of the governed.
— Pythagoras
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.
— Michel Martelly
These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.
— Lucian Of Samosata
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
— Seneca The Younger
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
— Charles De Secondat
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
— Richard Whately
As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
— T. Colin Campbell
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
— Stephen Covey
Your brother is a beslubbering, churlish, hell-governed princox, and I hope one day he gets the beating he deserves for it. (Maggie)
— Kinley MacGregor
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
— William Greider
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.
— Anand Sharma
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
— Prince Philip
For the world is only governed by self-interest.
— Friedrich Schiller
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies
— Henry Kissinger
The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
— Walter Lippmann
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
— David Hume
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
— Samuel Johnson
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
— Stephen Hawking
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
— George Herbert
Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are.
— Karen Marie Moning
The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.
— Mo Ibrahim
Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.
— Clement G. Martin
I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.
— Sam Waterston
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
— Nicholas Negroponte
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
— Harold Geneen
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
— Kwame Nkrumah
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
As we walk around we are like magnets pulling in experiences. The Law of Attraction is governed by the vibration we are in.
— Christopher Dines
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
— Ferdinand Buisson
If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
— Mona Caird
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
— William Penn
Favouritism governed kissage,Even as it does in this age. — Rudyard Kipling
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.
— Mason Cooley
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
— Marianne Moore
Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by ittake the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
— Benjamin Franklin
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."- Plato — Sienna Wilder
I've governed from a consistent set of principles
— Scott Gessler
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed
— Edward Snowden
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
— Richard Hooker
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
— Edward Snowden
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.
— Steven Redhead
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Lenin
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
A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.
— Richard B. Spence
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
— Helen Keller
The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
— William Greider
Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
— Steven Pinker
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
— Baron De Montesquieu
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
— William Wordsworth
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
— G.K. Chesterton
We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
— William Shakespeare
