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 world around it will forget even faster.
真理是所有伟大艺术的基础。
We have a responsibility to future generations to leave the planet in better shape than we found it.
我们有责任为子孙后代留下一个比我们发现时更好的地球。
People, even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed and redeemed;never throw out anyone.
The writer must be a witness to history, even if history ignores him.