Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

银行业最大的风险不是向不良借款人放贷，而是从善变的贷款人那里借款。