The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
創(chuàng)造性力量很容易變成破壞性力量。這只取決于人們的道德人格:是用此力量做好事或做壞事。如果人們?nèi)狈@種道德人格,則沒有一種說教能夠提供它或取而代之。
Every story is a lie, but some lies are truer than others.
我對官方歷史和個人記憶之間的空白感興趣。
It's not always about winning. It's about learning and getting better.
切割金屬藝術(shù)的第一步是找到一個具備必要技能和經(jīng)驗的人。
On haters: "If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new."
成為一個詩人意味著擁有一個如此敏銳的靈魂,以至于沒有任何品質(zhì)的細微差別能逃過它的注意。
不過是君主不把它[愛人利人]用在政事上,士大夫也不把它付諸行動罷了。