Mencius People Quotations

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.