Governs

Famous quotes containing the word governs:

“But this is neither here nor there—why do I mention it?—Ask my pen,—it governs me,—I govern not it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

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

“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity—the law of nature and of nations.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)