Quotes About Governance

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Churches that lack accountability structures for leaders (or where leaders have dismantled them) are powerless when things go wrong. Not only are they driving without a seatbelt, they have cut the brakes and may be hurtling towards a cliff.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

The CIO of an enterprise that is maintaining competitiveness needs to focus on IT governance.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

You are the master of your emotions; you can keep them under control!

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

here is a better chance of a repository of the kind of wisdom I choose to be governed by among average people than among Ph.D's at Harvard."22

The masterminds and their flatterers are progressively immune to regular democratic processes and pressures, such as elections and citizen lobbying, unless, of course, the electoral results and policy demands comport with their own governing objectives. Otherwise, they have an escalating preference for rule by administrative regulation, executive decree, and judicial fiat as the ends justifies the means.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

With a community that large and engaged, it needs a more open process of governance