Tsekung asked Confucious, “What would you say if all the people of a village like a person?”

“That is not enough,” replied Confucious.

“What would you say if all the people in a village dislike a person?”

“That is not enough,” replied Confucius. “It is better when the good people of the village like him, and the bad people of the village dislike him.”

From the Aphorisms of Confucious, Translated by Lin Yutang, ‘The Wisdom of China’ (Foursquare: London: 1963) p. 289