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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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce 
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
Paul Tsongas
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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries
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The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
Dick Thornburgh
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal
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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
Phillip E. Johnson
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli
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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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