Governs

Famous quotes containing the word governs:

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

    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)

    The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
    Themistocles (c. 528–c. 462 B.C.)