Quotes About Governance

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.

That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to others, wants us even less to be held in honour and glory by them. He also advised Idomeneus in no wise to govern his actions by reputation or by common opinion, except to avoid such incidental disadvantages as the contempt of men might bring him.10 Those words are infinitely true, in my opinion, and are reasonable.

Kanunlar doÄŸru olduklar? için deÄŸil, kanun olduklar? için yürürlükte kal?rlar.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in mounting and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to govern and circumscribe itself; it takes everything for great, that is enough, and demonstrates itself in preferring moderate to eminent things. There is nothing so fine and legitimate as well and duly play the man; nor science so arduous as well and naturally know how to live this life; and of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most barbarous to despise our being.

And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.

Government is the right disposition of things.

In political thought and analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king... we must construct an analytics of power that no longer takes law as a model and a code.

Allow me to ask you, then, how man can govern if he cannot plan for even so ridiculously short a span as a thousand years or so, if, in fact, he cannot guarantee his own next day?

Permita-me perguntar: como o homem poderia governar se ele não apenas está privado da possibilidade de elaborar um plano para um período de tempo ridiculamente curto, como, digamos, mil anos, mas nem consegue responder pelo dia de amanhã?

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Now Leto understood why the Old Duke had insisted that his son learn to read his subjects and know the mood of the populace. "At the heart of it all, lad, we rule at their sufferance," Paulus had told him, "though thankfully most of the population doesn't realize it. If you're a good enough ruler, none of your people will think to question it.

At first Rumania may have been just a little neutral against the Allies, but that was because the rogues who governed her did not understand the 'brincibles' of democracy, but by the end of the war, although she was too small country to make spectacular gestures, Rumania was being very neutral against Germany.

In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.

It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires.

conquering territory is one thing, while administering it is quite another.

The church,' says Calvin in his commentary on Ephesians 4:11-13, 'is the common mother of all the godly, which bears, nourishes, and governs in the Lord both kings and commoners; and this is done by the ministry.' 6 Calvin endorsed another of Cyprian's sayings, 'that he who would have God as his father must have the church as his mother.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.

Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.

In the year 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution. With that constitution, we further secured the human rights and civil liberties of our citizens and entrenched constitutional governance and justice.

You had better have one King than five hundred.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.