Politics Quote by Karen Armstrong

“If your politics puts you at the unorthodox end of the spectrum, you can remind the Party that Confucius also talked about the Mandate…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius”

— Evan Osnos

“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius”

— Steven D. Price

“Confucius said, “People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.”

— Sun Tzu

“Confucius had said, “If a ruler’s words be good, is it not also good that no one oppose them? But if they are not…

— Louise Levathes

“But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles…

— Henry Kissinger

“Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS”

— Deborah Moggach

“He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and…

— Paul David Tripp

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government by laying…

— William Reynolds

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart…

— Charles Dickens