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«Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.»
Author: Clive Barnes
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
available, culture, democratic, entirely, governed, television, terrifies, terrifying
«The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, coquette, coquettes, governed, whim
«The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Imagination
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Divine, divine power, governed, ruling, rulings
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
end up, governed, inferiors, participate, participated, participates, participating, penalties, politics, Refusing
«The boy is not governed by don't ,but is led by do.»
«So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
female, governed, governs, inferior, respect to, with respect to
«The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
Country
| Keywords:
Bankers, Corporations, governed, richest, speculator, speculators
«The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
by chance, fantasies, governed
«The human race is governed by its imagination.»
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