Quotes About Governance

What is the use of having a king who reigns but does not rule the population?

When a corrupt ruler is given the seat of power, he will end up neglecting all the virtues of a true leader.

We often hear the Church referred to as a democracy, when in reality, instead of being a church where the body is governed by officers elected by the members, the Church is a theocracy, where God directs his church through representatives chosen by him.

The vast majority of Huguenots supported the king and the royal family and wished to live in peace, he explained. The problem was that the Protestant movement had been more or less hijacked by extremists who desired political power. This radical element was using the general unhappiness with the Guises' governance, and especially with their vicious policy of persecution, to forward their own ambitions.

Men are no longer permitted to vote – because their years of violence and degradation have shown that they are not fit to rule or govern.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Ex-governor Walter Hickel, decrying the interference of wolf advocates (many of them Outsiders) in the issue two decades ago, put it best, with this unintentionally comical, landmark statement: "You can't just let nature run wild.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

the Purpose of a company should automatically come down to balancing the demands of stakeholders or constituencies. In real life, this is already the way companies are managed. Corporate directors have to balance demands in the short run—from customers, workers, shareholders, community and so on—or they will find themselves out of business or in jail. Companies

People in power fight to stay in power," says the Prophet. "This is the nature of power.

I've noticed that people who have a little bit of power tend to use it.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

conforme España, mal gobernada, continuamente en guerra, endeudada y empobrecida, trataba de reponerse del gran trauma de la derrota de su Armada Invencible frente a los ingleses en 1588.

Things we understand we can try to control".

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Christopher Columbus himself established the template for the newcomers' view of the aboriginal population. "They ought to make good and skilled servants," he wrote; "I think they can very easily be made Christians. … I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I please.

1978, Sir Winston Lord, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, said: "The Trilateral Commission doesn't secretly run the world. The Council on Foreign Relations does that.