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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
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4 comments:

  1. James Higham5 December 2013 at 07:04

    The diametric opposite of the case.

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  2. A K Haart5 December 2013 at 09:22

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

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  3. Demetrius5 December 2013 at 14:53

    But where are the straightforward in today's world?

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  4. A K Haart5 December 2013 at 17:44

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

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