Governance Quotes

State first, subject second, statesman last.

~ Amit Kalantri

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

~ Amit Kalantri

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

~ Amit Kalantri

No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one of us has an aspect of the devil within us. By studying the character and nature of Satan, we learn about ourselves; and the more we know about ourselves, the better we can fight our own personal demons—metaphorical or otherwise—in order to create a better tomorrow

~ Nwaocha Ogechukwu

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

~ Heather Marsh

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

~ Amit Kalantri

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

~ Heather Marsh

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Leaders say no to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.

~ Mmanti Umoh

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

~ Frank Herbert

Change can only take place if we desire the change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

~ Moisés Naím

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

~ Stewart Stafford

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method, should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

~ Peter J. Carroll

What is Science Fiction? It is the absence of governance and political arrangements in worlds where advanced technology marches onwards. Petty politics and primal instincts continue to dominate while scientific advancement continues. This is our problem today as well: our brightest minds devote themselves to science but shun governance and politics. So as in each catastrophe conjured and contemplated in science fiction, we run the risk of cosmic destruction, lest our greatest minds turn to resolving the outstanding problems of politics and governance first.

~ Usman W. Chohan

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

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don’t be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don’t be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.

~ Patrick Mendis

A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

~ Clifford Cohen

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

~ Gene Luen Yang

All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.

~ Heather Marsh

Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the “benefits” of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?

~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

~ Amit Kalantri

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

~ Amit Kalantri

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

~ Amit Kalantri

Human rights don't trickle down.

~ Heather Marsh

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

~ Heather Marsh

For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

~ Amit Kalantri

Business is boss, politics is servant.

~ Amit Kalantri

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

~ Auliq Ice

When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural values, and our creative use of freedom, not upon our racial identification. I see no reason why the heritage of world culture—which represents a continuum—should be confused with the notion of race. Japan erected a highly efficient modern technology upon a religious culture which viewed the Emperor as a god. The Germany which produced Beethoven and Hegel and Mann turned its science and technology to the monstrous task of genocide; one hopes that when what are known as the “Negro” societies are in full possession of the world’s knowledge and in control of their destinies, they will bring to an end all those savageries which for centuries have been committed in the name of race. From what we are now witnessing in certain parts of the world today, however, there is no guarantee that simply being non-white offers any guarantee of this. The demands of state policy are apt to be more influential than morality. I would like to see a qualified Negro as President of the United States. But I suspect that even if this were today possible, the necessities of the office would shape his actions far more than his racial identity.

~ Ralph Ellison

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

~ T.f. Hodge

Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.

~ Heather Marsh

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

~ Amit Kalantri