To understand humanity, we must first understand our origins.

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.

文明不是在暴力中灭亡，而是在笑声中消解。

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.