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Country Quotes by Laozi
- Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
- Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil…
- When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are…
- Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
- Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
- See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
- A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
- Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?
- To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of…
- The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.
- If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it…
- A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need,…
- To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
- If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and…
- The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home.…
- When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace…
- You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
More Country Quotes
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood