Lao Tzu Quotes

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

By your hand the people shall live

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.