The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
当可怕的事情发生时，人们会觉醒。
The state is not a work of art; it is a necessity.
I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.