Quotes About Governance

We will follow in letter and spirit whatever the RBI rules and guidelines are - whether at the holding company level or individual company level.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

I just about got this planet all sewn up." Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.

To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between—as well as people who think their actions are shaped by logic but in fact are shaped by feelings or nonempirical philosophies—you need politics.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Los gobernantes arbitrarios y corruptos tienen una enorme responsabilidad por este fracaso económico.36 Buena parte del dinero que llovió sobre los países pobres ha sido simplemente filtrado y devuelto (con frecuencia hacia cuentas de bancos en Suiza), pues los gobernantes corruptos han atesorado sus mal obtenidas ganancias en el extranjero.

autocríticos y demasiado blandos hacia los pueblos que habían subyugado: Hay ingleses que se reprochan haber gobernado mal el país. ¿Por qué? Porque los indios no muestran entusiasmo por su dominio. Afirmo que los ingleses han gobernado la India muy bien, pero que su error ha sido esperar entusiasmo del pueblo que gobiernan.

a better explanation may be the fundamental deterioration of standards in both legislation and governance that we see in nearly every democracy, regardless of their different twentieth-century histories

Edmund Burke habló en nombre de muchos cuando dijo: «El uso de la fuerza exclusivamente […] puede dominar por un momento, pero no evita la necesidad de volver a dominar otra vez, y una nación no es gobernada si ha de ser perpetuamente conquistada».