You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Was this Thoreau or Homer? I believe it was Thoreau.
Community discipline is the devil.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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