During his life, Confucius served as a public official and had many things to say about good government:
- Leaders should always serve the people with honesty, fairness, and, once again, humaneness.
- Leaders should preside over the people with dignity, and they will be serious.
- Leaders should be filial and kind, and they (the people) will be loyal.
- Leaders should promote the good, instruct the unskilled, and they will be enthusiastic.
- Leaders should dwell on it [government] tirelessly; carry it out faithfully.
- Appoint the wise and talented to office.
- Trust, above all else, is the most important thing for a government to strive for - above arms and even food, for "nothing can be established without the trust of the people.
- An ignoble man cannot serve in government, because he "worries about getting something, and once he has gotten it he worries about losing it. ...there's no telling what he might do."
- Always "put service first and gain after."
Creidit to :http://www.associatedcontent.com/
Our politicians still have much to learn from Confucius... Will they ever?
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