#governed

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#breathes #consent #foundational #governed #into

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#any #arbitrarily #being #deliberations #direct

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#consent #governed #law #mankind #opinion

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confrontation #dinner #dinner table #formal #governed

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#appearance #fully #governed #know #more

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq. ↗

— John Yoo

#been #between #both #conventions #detained

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. ↗

— John Yoo

#applies #because #between #conflict #conflicts

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#directly #equations #governed #science #solve

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

— William Ralph Inge

#astonishing #governed #how #little #mankind