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• The world is governed by opinion.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Governed, Opinion

• The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion’s share of their revenues.

  James Surowiecki

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  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Deserve, Governed

• Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

  David Hume

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• When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

  Michel Martelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Anymore, Governed

• 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?

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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  Tags in Wisest, Governed, Useless

• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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  Tags in Governed, Race

• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in Governed, Deserve

• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  Jacques Delors

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governments, Governed, Widening, Distance

• Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

  Nelson A. Miles

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Governed, Astonishing