The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

让人们保持被动和顺从的聪明方法是严格限制可接受意见的范围，但在该范围内允许非常活跃的辩论。

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

要么你重复每个人都在说的相同传统教条，要么你说一些真实的东西，而它会听起来像是来自海王星。

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

宣传之于民主，正如棍棒之于极权国家。

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

你越是能增加对毒品和犯罪、福利母亲、移民和外星人的恐惧，你就越能控制所有人。

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

乐观是一种创造更美好未来的策略。因为除非你相信未来会更好，否则你不太可能站出来为创造这样的未来承担责任。

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

普通大众不知道正在发生什么，甚至不知道他们不知道。

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

如果我们不相信我们所鄙视的人的言论自由，那么我们根本就不相信言论自由。

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

无色的绿色念头愤怒地睡觉。

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

互联网可能是迈向教育、组织和参与一个有意义的社会的非常积极的一步。

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.

语言是一种自由创造的过程；其法则和原则是固定的，但生成原则的使用方式是自由且无限多样的。