
“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”
Heart of a Pagan (2002).
“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter II
Context: To worship to other than one's own ancestral spirits is brown-nosing. If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.
Variant To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.