最糟糕的谎言是我们对自己说的谎言。
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 is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.