The World Motivation
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
— Confucius · Government
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
No lake so still but it has its wave.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Time flows away like the water in the river.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.