Milan Kundera: ความกระเสือกกระสนของคนในการต่อสู้กับอำนาจ คือ การต้องดิ้นรนเพื่อไม่ให้ความทรงจำถูกลบเลือน
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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 that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.