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.

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."

在阈限阶段，共同体作为一种自发的、直接的和平等的人际关系出现。

无论多么复杂或精细，所有行为都可以用刺激和反应来解释。