“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.”
英语
“知识分子的责任是说出真相并揭露谎言。”
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
英语
“如果我们不相信我们所鄙视之人的言论自由，那我们根本就不相信言论自由。”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
英语
“宣传之于民主，正如棍棒之于极权国家。”
“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.”
英语
“让人们保持被动和顺从的聪明办法，是严格限制可接受意见的范围，但在这个范围内允许非常活跃的辩论。”
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
英语
“整个教育和职业培训体系是一个非常精密的过滤器，它淘汰那些过于独立、独立思考、不懂得顺从的人——因为这些人对体制来说是不合用的。”
“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”
英语
“普通民众不知道正在发生什么，甚至不知道自己不知道。”