Nothing exists except atoms and empty space； everything else is opinion.

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.

阅读是不动身的旅行；写作是不旅行的移动。

出自《魏源集·都中吟十三首》。洋人的情况、技术和版图，我都了解得像万里大的手掌中玩米和沙子一样。知己知彼是兵家的策略，一定要知道谁主掌着典属国的职位。

I don't let anyone silence me.