Inspirational Quote by Laozi

“The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects; The next best are loved and praised; The next are feared; The next despised: They…

— Tao Te Ching

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

— Laozi

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

— Laozi

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

— Laozi

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their…

— Laozi

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared.…

— Laozi

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

— Laozi

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

— Laozi

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

— Laozi

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

— Laozi

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from…

— Aristotle

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor…

— François-René de Chateaubriand