It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed when that little wisdom is its own.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best though true is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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.

Modem science then maintains on the one hand that nature both organic and inorganic strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

The world is governed by opinion.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent be it epic or drama or narrative is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Many a happiness in life as many a disaster can be due to chance but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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.

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.

Women ought to have representatives instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years is to have the best future for our nation then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people not by the factions.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets in the daily work of the communications media in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.