Famous quotes containing the word governed:
“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.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“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)