Quotes About Governance

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

To rule the world, man has got to rule the rulers of the world.

We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—but we are still stuck with only national politics.

Piyasay? idare edenler bir karara varman?z için bin y?l oturup beklemeyecektir.

The European empires believed that in order to govern effectively they must know the languages and cultures of their subjects. British officers arriving in India were supposed to spend up to three years in a Calcutta college, where they studied Hindu and Muslim law alongside English law; Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian alongside Greek and Latin; and Tamil, Bengali and Hindustani culture alongside mathematics, economics and geography.

Both politicians and voters are barely able to comprehend the new technologies, let alone regulate their explosive potential.

As we have been claiming, the global capitalist order cannot be (and to date has not been) defeated with local or national resistance; what we need instead is an even more combative universalism, or what we've been calling universality, in the form of transnational governance bodies such as the EU.

Nigeria is too large to manage.....

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

le monde] n'a pas besoin d'être gouverné ; en fait, il ne devrait pas être gouverné

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." —Sidney Hillman

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

The forces that will drive the whole world to become rich are temperate self-interest and temperate governance. As Adam Smith put it in 1755, "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.