Quotes About Governance

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

The problem holding everything up thus far is that Homo sapiens is an innately dysfunctional species. We are hampered by the Paleolithic Curse: genetic adaptations that worked very well for millions of years of hunter-gatherer existence but are increasingly a hindrance in a globally urban and technoscientific society. We seem unable to stabilize either economic policies or the means of governance higher than the level of a village.

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

No me extrañaría que se hayan arrepentido de sus ambiciones en el instante mismo de ocupar la presidencia al darse cuenta que trataban de dirigir un país ingobernable.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.

All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.

I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.

poner al Ejército firme, imponer el orden en este desastre, gobernar esta letrina, unos sopapos aquí y allá, los semanarios callados, el pueblo callado que es lo que le gusta, créame

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

Rome was an evolutionary society, not a revolutionary one. Constitutional crises tended to lead not to the abolition of previous arrangements but to the accretion of new layers of governance.

Senators will also have been pleased to witness the declining importance of the people—

institutions. But they have consequences.

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

I have lived with the people, and I, too, know their pulse; I am the people's CM.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

No one gets punished for corruption in our country.