#governs

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

The dead governs the living. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#governs #living

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #depiction #governs #logic #mass

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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