Famous quotes containing the word governed:
“Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)