"The more prohibitions you have, the less..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
More by Lao Tzu
“Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.Learn to lead without being possessive.Learn to be helpful without taking the credit.Learn to lead without coercion.”
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
“Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.”
More on Government
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
More on Morality
“Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?”
“The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'”
“Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma or a hideous dream.”