Analects 13.30
The Analects (論語), BOOK XIII. TSZE-LU 子路第十三
子曰、以不教民戰、是謂棄之。
The Master said, "To lead an uninstructed people to war, is to throw them away."
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 教jiàoschool, education
- 民míncitizens, subjects; a nation's people
- 戰zhànwar, fighting, battle
- 是shìto be; indeed, right, yes; okay
- 謂wèito call, to say, to tell; name, title; m
- 棄qìto abandon, to discard, to reject; to de
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 3.21
- Mencius 6B.9
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Mencius 6B.8
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 62
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
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