Quotes About Governance

Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

Those with power never willingly concede their control.

If Aristotle had been right and it was man's destiny to be free, if our nature as human beings makes us fit to govern our lives as we see fit, then why is it that everywhere we look human beings are unfree and submit to various forms of tyranny and slavery, including now in Florence? Why did freedom fail, not only in Florence but throughout history—even ancient Greece and Rome?

In the absence of any force to maintain law and order, power belonged to whoever was strong enough to seize it.

When the Ostrogoths had swept into Italy, Theodoric looked for the best and brightest Roman for advice on how to govern. He turned to Boethius. For nearly two decades, Boethius had acted as Theodoric's chief political adviser and mentor—his surrogate father, almost. Theodoric was dazzled by Boethius's shrewd advice, by his icy calm in times of crisis, but above all by his knowledge of Greek literature, philosophy, and science.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and Reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it."33 Was it possible that God would devise such a system of natural laws and put man in the middle of them in order to create a nation of slaves? Locke said no.

Ya lo decían los griegos. Un pueblo libre y alegre será naturalmente laborioso. —Exacto. Y a los buenos gobernantes corresponde no imponer, sino garantizar esa clase de felicidad. —En

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?

What came in the wake of 1971 promised to be an endless trial by fire for the constituent units of a Pakistani federation that the military in league with the central bureaucracy insisted on governing as a quasi- unitary state.

Contemptuous of all politicians, they were especially wary of a Bengali majority in any future federal constitution. If permitted to secure their rightful place in the governance of the country, Bengali politicians could join their disaffected counterparts in the non- Punjabi provinces to force a change in Pakistan's Kashmir focused and pro- American foreign policy.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.

In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.