Quotes About Governed

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

People used to recognize it as mood.Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.When you feel sad, just do long running.Then you will know that even mood can be governed.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

The problem with trying to gauge mathematical probability was that it presupposed the circumstance you were observing was governed by chance.

Once again, we must return to the fact that a TV pilot and its resulting series need to be governed by a theme, a unifying or dominant idea. The theme determines the central conflict, and that central conflict must be embodied in the lead characters. In

At the higher stages of energy continuation, one will find his movements are now being governed by the movement of his internal energy.

You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.