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Wednesday 4 December 2013

Promote the crooked...


To a question put to him by Duke Ngai as to what should be done in order to render the people submissive to authority, Confucius replied, "Promote the straightforward, and reject those whose courses are crooked, and the thing will be effected. Promote the crooked and reject the straightforward, and the effect will be the reverse."

Confucius - The Analects

4 comments:

James Higham said...

The diametric opposite of the case.

A K Haart said...

James - yes and after all those centuries we still don't have it figured out.

Demetrius said...

But where are the straightforward in today's world?

A K Haart said...

Demetrius - err... err... err... I give up.