quote · Legacy record

To criticize and yet offer no alternative is like trying to stop flood with water or put out fire with fire. It will surely have no effect. One who loves will be loved by others; one who hates will be hated by others. Some are like blind man talking about white and black in the same way as ordinary men, but in practice cannot distinguish between them. …..Corrupt man with their elaborate and corrupt rites and music and ready to deceive parents with lengthy mornings and hypocritical grief. They propound fatalism, ignore poverty, and behave with greatest arrogance. They turn their back on what is important, abandon their tasks, and find content in idleness and pride. They are greedy for food and drink, and lazy to do any work, but thou they found themselves threatened by hunger and cold, they refuse to change their ways. They behave like beggars, stuff aside food like hamsters, stare like he-goats, and walk around like castrated pigs.

To criticize and yet offer no alternative is like trying to stop flood with water or put out fire with fire. It will surely have no effect. One who loves will be loved by others; one who hates will be hated by others. Some are like blind man talking about white and black in the same way as ordinary men, but in practice cannot distinguish between them. …..Corrupt man with their elaborate and corrupt rites and music and ready to deceive parents with lengthy mornings and hypocritical grief. They propound fatalism, ignore poverty, and behave with greatest arrogance. They turn their back on what is important, abandon their tasks, and find content in idleness and pride. They are greedy for food and drink, and lazy to do any work, but thou they found themselves threatened by hunger and cold, they refuse to change their ways. They behave like beggars, stuff aside food like hamsters, stare like he-goats, and walk around like castrated pigs.

Historical period not yet established