Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation
