Quotes About Governance

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

In a democracy government is the God.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

Jokes apart, I, like many other, am looking for strong and stable government. I don't want any chaotic political situation where the elected government is being toppled frequently.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

In our party, for the post of the prime minister or chief minister, there is no race, and nor does anyone stake their claim. Who will be the prime minister or chief minister, either our parliamentary board decides on this or the elected MLAs, in the case of chief minister, and MPs, in the case of the prime minister, select their leader.

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

You can only govern men by serving them.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

With words we govern men.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

This is the first time in history there has been mass denial that sexual relations are a proper subject of moral reflection or need to be governed by moral restrictions. The result of this denial, not surprisingly, has been soaring divorce rates and mass illegitimacy, among other phenomena. The sexual revolution has been above all a change in moral sensibility, in the direction of a thorough coarsening of feeling, thought, and behavior.