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Governs Quotes

What shapes and controls the world around us.

These governs quotes range from chemical properties tied to composition to reflections on how a state's reach can shape everyday life. Read more in our Government quotes.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

Quotes by Abby Wambach

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in...

Quotes by Todd Gitlin

Being Quotes

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.

Quotes by Thomas More

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

Quotes by Susan Cain

The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.

Quotes by Priti Patel

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Quotes by Polykarp Kusch

Community Quotes

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase,...

Quotes by Paula White

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Quotes by Pat Robertson

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

Quotes by Nicholas Culpeper

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Quotes by Moshe Sharett

Government Quotes

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Quotes by Montesquieu

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and...

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Quotes by Lactantius

I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our...

Quotes by Kirk Cameron

Language Quotes

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines...

Quotes by Jose Rizal

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'governs' refer to across these quotes?
It covers several kinds of rule, including chemical properties, national power, and even which planet oversees a particular season.
Is there a scientific quote in this set?
Yes, one references how the composition of chemical compounds was linked to their properties, shaping an entire theory.
Do any quotes discuss the scale of a modern state's reach?
One reflects on how much a country's government touches, suggesting the whole world has a stake in understanding that reach.
Is there a quote touching on conquest and history?
One acknowledges arriving in an already-inhabited land and displacing a people who governed it through their own language and culture.
Where can I explore this theme further?
Our Government quotes focus more directly on national governance itself.

One line even ties rulership to astrology, noting which planet governs the timing of a harvest. For related themes, see our Being and Community quotes.