Quotes About Governance

All power corrupts but some must govern.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

My interest is in power. How power works.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

Power has a social function.

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

For how can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

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Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.