Quotes About Governance

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.

Denn nur wenige Menschen wollen die Freiheit, ein großer Teil aber gerechte Herren.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.

While not everyone can be expected to be an 'expert' in all matters of governance, we know that any of us might one day be called upon to serve on the People's Council,

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

I am in control at all times.

They knew that the police worked unremittingly, unceasingly, always and ever to bring every phase of human activity under their control.

Humanity requires for its understanding and governance not science but art

It is the presence of salt throughout France, along with either cows, goats, or sheep, that has made it the notoriously ungovernable land of 265 kinds of cheese. French cheese makers were trying to be neither difficult nor original. They were all trying to preserve milk in salt so they could have a way of keeping it as a food supply. But with different traditions and climates, the salted curds came out 265 different ways. At one time, there were probably more variations than that.

Roosevelt and his advisers soon fell into the habit of calling for Bureau reports on matters that had little or nothing to do with law enforcement.

When such men as Laurence Fitzgibbon were called upon to act as governors, was it not to be expected that the ignorant but still intelligent Bunces of the population should— "d––––n it all"?

Government! Well; I suppose there must be government. But the less of it the better. I'm not against government; — nor yet against laws, Mr. Finn; though the less of them, too, the better

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves.

It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws.

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?