Governs

Famous quotes containing the word governs:

“When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Wherever you see a man who gives someone else’s corruption, someone else’s prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)