A Quote by Mencius

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Mencius

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Mencius
Chinese - Philosopher
372 BC - 289 BC

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Aristotle

It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

Phil Knight

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Alan Dershowitz

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

Rick Perry

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

Benjamin Carson

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

John Fletcher

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Alan King

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

Confucius

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Robert Breault

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