Quotes About Governed

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.

every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to flourish or fail.

sense of shared citizenship. This sentiment was crucial to the formation of modern states and the peaceful societies they governed.

en cuanto empiece a comprender que el universo, no solo en la esfera de los números, sino en todo, está gobernado por leyes, y que nada ocurre por azar, se calmará y entrará en razón.

No hay nada más noble que la ley, pues distingue a los hombres de las bestias, porque éstas se rigen tan sólo por el instinto y el hombre es gobernado por las leyes de su espíritu y por tanto es libre.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone. And conscience, added the bishop. It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.

History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.

Reason is the enemy of all greatness: reason is the enemy of nature: nature is great, reason is small. I mean that it will be more or less difficult for a man to be great the more he is governed by reason, that few can be great (and in art and poetry perhaps no one) unless they are governed by illusions.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.