160 Quotes About Governance

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying." ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

Among the means of power that now prevail is the power to manage and to manipulate the consent of men. That we do not know the limits of such power—and that we hope it does have limits—does not remove the fact that much power today is successfully employed without the sanction of the reason or the conscience of the obedient.

Governance is corrupted when political power is used to gain wealth and when wealth is used to gain political power.

Every Crown shall serve the people not the people to serve the crown.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

Keeping our focus on racist individuals is not only futile, but it also spends a precious energy that we need to direct at changing the entire structure and the system in place as we have it. We must understand that the system and the structure we have in place are created by the powerful 1% that clearly benefits from racism as a form of governance.

The existence of any social construct hinges on the survival of its constituents and maintenance of law and order. In peace, it thrives.