The Art of War « Brian Browne Walker

The Art of War

If people

don’t love life,

they won’t fear death,

and threatening them

with it won’t

work.

people have

lives worth living, then

the threat of death is meaningful,

and they’ll do what is right

to avoid it.

But

killing itself

should be the province

of the great executioner alone.

Trying to take his place and kill is like

cutting wood in the place of the

master carpenter: the odds

are you’ll hurt your

own hand.

Tao te Ching