Governed Quotes
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A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
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Government exists only for the good of the governed.
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I need to go towards the illogical. This world we live in destroys us. It is always governed by the same laws. You have to create images that don’t belong to it. That are totally different from those it presents us.
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
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A mature science is governed by a single paradigm.
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In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
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The world is governed by opinion.
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
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I know I have an intellect, but I don't think I'm governed by it very much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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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.
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Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
