Governing Quotes - Page 15

• I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

  John F. Kennedy

  Rights, Self, People

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Art, Real, Political

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• There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

  Robert Ballard

  Museums, Sea, Law

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• Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.

  Ben Stein

  Missing, Principles, Pieces

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, transcripts.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Dark, Media, Civilization

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

  Laozi

  Government, States, Fishes

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.28, Chinese University Press

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Country, Evil

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• It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, People, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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• The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Organization, Two

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• Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Office, Watches

  Considerations on Representative Government ch. 5 (1861)

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• Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Opinion, Affair

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Guilty, Innocent

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• Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as a result are governing on behalf of, an ever-shrinking class of people. The more they attack working peoples’ attempts to have some influence on the political landscape, the more they reveal that they govern for the millionaires, not the millions.

  Len McCluskey

  Party, Class, People

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Party, Power, Should Have

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Simple, Doctors

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

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• In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Successful, Men

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1931). “The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)”

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• Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Animal

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• I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Real, Reading, Expression

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10473, Delphi Classics

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• I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

  Queen Victoria

  Hate, Good Woman, Occupation

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• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Government, Justice

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

  William Greider

  Class, Odor, Authority

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Self Pity, Contradiction

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