আইন সম্পর্কে কনফুসিয়াসের উক্তি :

“মানুষের মধ্যে যদি নৈতিক চরিত্রের উন্নতি না হয়, শুধুমাত্র আইন করে মানুষকে সংযত করে রাখা সম্ভব নয়।”

— কনফুসিয়াস

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Confucius-sayings-about-Law

If moral character is not developed in people, it is not possible to restrain people by law alone. — Confucius

“If you govern the people with laws and control them by punishment, they will . . . have no personal sense of shame. If you govern them
by virtue (de) and keep order among them by ritual (li), they will gain their own sense of shame and correct themselves.”

"If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

"If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good."

China was ruled for centuries by one dynasty, or ruling family, after another. The first great dynasty was the Shang, which ruled much of China for about 400 years. The next dynasty was the Zhou. The Zhou Dynasty clung to power for more than 800 years—from 1027 B.C. to 221 B.C. But for the last 500 years of that time, it ruled in name only.

 
Mongolians attacked from the north. Dropping their loyalty to the Zhou Dynasty, nobles battled one another for control of parts of China. Wars constantly raged.

 
During this disorderly and dangerous time, many people came up with ideas for putting Chinese society back together. So many ideas were in the air that this time was known as the period of the Hundred Schools of Thought. One of the most important of these schools was
Confucianism.

 
The founder of Confucianism was a man named Kongzi, or Master Kong. Outside of China, he is called Confucius. He was born in 551 B.C. in northeastern China in the state of Lu. (Today Lu is called Shandong Province.)

 
Confucius lived a simple life, spending most of his time as a teacher. Only a few facts are known about his life. But because he is considered one of the greatest Chinese thinkers, many stories have arisen about him.

 
When he was about 50, he was appointed to work in the government of Lu. He wanted
to apply his ideas to make society better. He was soon made minister of justice. But Confucius saw that those above him did not like his ideas. So he left.

 
He spent the next 12 years traveling around China. He was looking for a ruler who would listen to his ideas. He never found one. His students, however, continued to follow him. When he was 67, he returned to Lu. He died in 479 B.C.

 
Many years after his death, the students of his students wrote down Confucius’ teachings in a book. It is called the Lun Yu. In English, this book is usually called the Analects or the Sayings of Confucius. It has hundreds of short sayings of Confucius.