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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Contributed by Jack Shields
Content
Overview
Context
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
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Chapter 26
Summary

Law Twenty-Six: Keep Your Hands Clean

Analysis

To maintain the façade of a leader, a person needs to retain an element of efficiency and civility. The individual, therefore, needs to ensure that his hands are not polluted with nasty deeds and mistakes (Greene 200). There is, therefore, the need to use others as scapegoats, in a bid to retain some level of a spotless appearance. The individual may, therefore, have a chance to disguise his involvement in any form of wrongdoing. In the second century A.D, the imperial minister of Han Empire, Ts’ao, miscalculated on grain supplies and they would arrive late. Soon, there was a food shortage in the kingdom, and there was a ration of supply of food for his army (Greene 201). Soon, there were grumbles among the army as they felt that he was keeping a lot of food for himself and denying them. Seeking to prevent mutiny, he chose to behead his chief of commissariat to prove to the military men that the blame was not his but for the man executed. The action, thus, calmed the men down.

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