Quotes About Governance

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.

In a city composed wholly of good men there would be a great unwillingness to rule

qué Estado puede subsistir, si los fallos dados no tienen ninguna fuerza y son eludidos por los particulares?

And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world.

Y así, Trasímaco --- dije yo-, nadie que tiene gobierno, en cuanto es gobernante, examina ni ordena lo conveniente para sí mismo, sino lo conveniente para el gobernado y sujeto a su arte, y dice cuanto dice y hace todo cuanto hace mirando a éste y a su conveniencia y ventaja.

anarchy should have no place in the life of man or of the beasts who are subject to man.

a change of governance that could soon mean different heads lofted in punishment for the telling of different truths. She wanted to breathe the warning into all their ears: never let your true thought be known, for it is by truth that you are noosed and for truth burnt.

Increasingly, everywhere in the world, people are not governed by those who wish to serve them, but ruled by those mad with power and determined to have total submission. They seem ever more fiercely inspired to greater ruthlessness. They call their hatred justice and see it as a virtue.

Power, most power anyway, was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

Power—most power anyway, certainly Vidalia's brand of it—was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

In Hell," she said, "someone's in charge.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.