Governing Quotes - Page 9

• Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

  Sallust

  Grief, Make Happy, Joy

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• Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Example, Cease

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Views, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Dark, What Matters, Community

  Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.

  Dick Armey

  Kings, Government, Ideas

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• [The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

  Robert Bork

  Philosophy, Want Something, Gathering

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• This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Artist, Greed

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• Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Self, Ends

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

  Georges Bernanos

  Powerful, Hands, Justice

  Georges Bernanos (1962). “The Diary of a Country Priest”

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• The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Class, Degrees, Facts

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• Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done more to protect Christian liberty than any governing document ever devised by man.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Christian, Men, People

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• It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

  John Scott

  Home, Thinking, Issues

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• The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Principles, Behavior, Understood

  Jay Wright Forrester (1968). “Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook”

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• History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Men, Tasks, Ability

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• Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

  Augusto Pinochet

  President, Titles, Boards

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• My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Whole

  Speech at Birmingham and Midland Institute, 27 September 1869, in K. J. Fielding (ed.) 'The Speeches of Charles Dickens' (1960)

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• The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, Government, Self

  "Guns and Liberty". Mises Daily, June 03, 1999.

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• Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Change, Thinking, Talking

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• Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Honesty, Heart, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

  William Safire

  Heart, Ideas, World

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• Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Smart, Men, Rome

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• The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Simple, Dwelling

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• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

  George Gilder

  Retirement, Memories, Fall

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• If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, not controlled by either governing principles or functioning institutions. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation - whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Motivation, Korea

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• We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Games, Use

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