Governed Quotes
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
John Ruskin
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I know I have an intellect, but I don't think I'm governed by it very much.
Michael Karoli
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
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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.
John Calvin
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Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.
Ernest Holmes
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Edward Bernays
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“The world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... You must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.”
Albert Cossery
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
Martin Luther
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud
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If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
Michel Foucault
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I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.
Benjamin Rush
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And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.
Thomas Hobbes
