We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
58. Political Reversal Its regime is torpid its people are guileless. Its government is critically discriminating its people are deficient. Calamity! The ground of fortuity. Fortuity! The obverse of calamity. Who knows its pivot? It lacks a 'correct' The 'correct' returns to be deemed unorthodox. Worthiness returns to be deemed an apparition. Human superstition a truly old story. Using this: Sages square things without carving Are fair without punishing. Are straight without being arbitrary. Are bright without dazzling us. -- tr. C. Hansen