Top Governed Quotes
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
Josiah Strong
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Benjamin Disraeli 
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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.
Gunther Grass 
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
Wilfrid Laurier
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
Christian Lous Lange
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams
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Popular Governed Authors
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David HumeStephen AmbroseWalter BagehotWilliam PennHenry FieldingJose SaramagoDaniel WebsterGolda MeirMike PenceHenri PoincareCharles de SecondatJames JoyceChristian Lous LangeWilliam Ellery ChanningAngela Carter
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