Quotes About Governance

Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

But most short-term renters of stocks are not particularly interested in assuring that corporate governance is focused on placing the interests of the stockholder first.

God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such

A real king is the one who recognizes that, in governing his kingdom, he is a true minister of God. Conversely whoever does not reign with a view to serving God's glory acts not as a ruler but as a robber.

Marital life cannot be easily represented in art because it is the small, invisible, quotidian growth of the day-to-day, where outwardly nothing happens. Romantic love is like a general who knows how to conquer but not how to govern once the last shot is fired. Unlike the aesthete, who knows how to 'kill time' , married people master time without killing it. Marital time is about the wise use and governance of time, setting one's hands to the plough of the day-to-day.

Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of them in Europe (Russia, Turkey and Hungary).

an honest dictatorship is better as a comparison between a weak and corrupt democracy.

Elections, in a democratic way, mean not that the elected party and its leaders respect the democratic system; practically, nowhere exists real democracy.

Never address who runs the system; however, address how one runs the system.

Rights, laws, rules, and principles exist; however, not applied.

To be under the rule of wise figures is more valuable and beneficial than ruling the idiot and fool ones.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity. To forgive is the mark of strength. To govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

La culpa no la tienen quienes se rebelan, la culpa la tienen quienes no saben gobernar.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

Nosotros siempre hemos tenido necesidad de un jefe, todavía hoy necesitamos un jefe.

Machines can't be tempered but the top men controlling all operation can easily be influenced to favour anyone.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

But if safety be their common concern, the good of the governors must correspond with the good of the governed, and the interest of the servant must coincide with the interest of the master.

Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

Any society must govern according to the plane of intelligence of the more stupid mass of its members. And it must have rules, and those rules must have as few exceptions as possible.