The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this... →
Elliott Abrams
The world is governed by opinion.
William Ellery Channing
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Jacques Delors
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Muhammad Iqbal
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Richard Hooker
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg C. Lichtenberg