Confucius on Governance

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. --Confucian Analects, 12,19. (translated literally, it is "noble man", not "superior man"..the last part should be "the wind, when passes over, bends the grass." it means the same but emphasizes the power of the a noble man's virtues. ) “子为政，焉用杀？子欲善而民善矣。君子之德风，小人之德草；草上之风，必偃。”－－《论语 颜渊》

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