"This is wishful thinking about an idealized Confucian culture, and it doesn't fit the reality of how Confucian thought was twisted by authoritarian rule over 2,000 years of Chinese culture."
「這是一廂情願地美化儒家，而無視儒家在二千年帝制中被迫變相變質」，蕭欣義在《儒家政治思想與民主自由人權》序文中指出。