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 problem of the modern age is the problem of the individual's self-preservation in the face of the overwhelming power of the social mechanism.

Change is hardest in the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end.

译文：厚道的人不去做损害、诋毁别人的事来使自己得益，仁义的人不危害别人而为自己求取名誉。