1. In this book, I didn't deliberately choose landmark events, nor did I have the ambition to depict history. From a large number of news reports, I only selected people who left a strong impression on me, people I happened to meet for work. They are flowing, overflowing from the stone dam deep within my heart, washing away hardened prejudices and patterns time and again, making them shaky and crumbling. This shaking is dangerous, but the essence of thought is unease.
—Preface2. I tried to write down as honestly as possible the facts and causes of this constant error, overturning, questioning, and rebuilding
. A country is made up of people, and a person is made up of countless others. How you want to report on a country is how you should report on yourself. —Preface
3. I saw something, but only vaguely felt something was strange, nothing more, nothing more. I felt I was just a small cog in a large system, everything would function normally, I just felt a little something was off, but I didn't receive any instructions, this wasn't my program's task, and I felt I would forget about it soon. —"That Warm Beating Is Living"
4. The deeper your understanding of people, the deeper your presentation. When making this program, my understanding of people was far from sufficient; I only made a simple judgment. —"The Trauma of Two Cities"
5. A kind person conducting "confrontational" interviews won't be eager to fight, but when they decide to protect the truth, it's an unwavering confrontation. —"Confrontation, Not Confrontation"
6. Life and death, suffering and aging, are all contained within each person; one day we will encounter them.
—"We Will Eventually Be Indistinguishable, Like Water Dissolving in Water"
7. People are the same; their desire for happiness is the same, their need for self-completeness is the same. It's just that she was born here,
living this way, and I came there, living this way—all by chance. All things change, over millions of years; everyone is a tiny grain, embedded in the order of the world. What is interviewing? Interviewing is the exchange between lives. The deeper your understanding of yourself, the deeper your understanding of others, and vice versa.
—Silence in the Scream
8. Human nature is never just about evil or good, but if evil is not suppressed, it will grow by devouring the fear of others, its sharp teeth
gnawing at the good in their bodies, swallowing it down with mouthfuls of wine. —From *Silence in the Scream*,
9. Once, while chatting with Zhang Yue of *Half the Sky*, she said, "Forrest Gump saw something and went to it. Others see a target, first make a battle plan, then crawl forward, dodge left, dodge right, then make cover… They spend their whole lives dodging and weaving, living a flashy life, but in the end, they get nowhere." —From *I Just Hate to Submit*,
10. Hao Jingsong said, "Faced with powerful institutions, people often have no choice but to obey, but I'm unwilling," he said, "I want to drag them onto the battlefield. I may not win, but I will make them feel pain, make them afraid that a dozen or twenty people like me will stand up, and make them change quickly out of fear." —From *I Just Hate to Submit*,
11. Hao Jingsong said, "Today you can lose the right to obtain it; if you don't fight, tomorrow you will lose even more rights
—personal rights, property rights, including land and houses." —From *I Just Hate to Submit*
12. In a speech at Peking University in 1946, Hu Shi said, "You should fight for independence, not freedom." He explained, "You say you want to fight for freedom, but freedom is in relation to external constraints. Independence is your own business. Even if you are given freedom, if you are not independent, you are still a slave. Independence means not blindly following others, not being deceived, not relying on factions, and not depending on others. This is the spirit of independence." — *I Just Hate Submitting*
13. When interviewing Hao Jingsong, I asked him, "What is the difference between a citizen and an ordinary citizen?" "Being able to independently express one's own views without arrogance, showing obedience to politics without being servile, actively participating in national policies, showing compassion for the weak, and feeling anger towards evil—I believe that's what makes a true citizen." — *I Just Hate Submitting*
14. News is the result of selection; people choose what to present. — *Many Things Exist Because Someone Believes
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15. Maintaining vigilance against different narratives is essential to maintaining one's independence. The pursuit of truth involves constant belief, constant doubt, constant disillusionment, constant destruction, and constant reconstruction, all in order to avoid becoming a slave to prejudice. Or, to put it another way, it involves inciting various prejudices to fight each other, thereby achieving a balance—this is my understanding of 'pursuit of truth.' —From *Truth Often Lost Amidst Tears*
16. Accuracy is the most important skill in this profession, while self-indulgence and prioritizing emotional appeal are the greatest enemies of accuracy; truth often gets lost amidst tears. —From *Truth Often Lost Amidst Tears*
17. Spinoza said, "Hope and despair can never be good. Because fear is a kind of pain, and hope cannot
exist apart from fear, both hope and despair indicate a lack of knowledge and a weakness of the soul." —From *Only Seeking Understanding and Recognition*
18. In 2008, Cui Yongyuan conducted oral history research, *My War of Resistance*. He said he watches his films repeatedly now.
A veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japan: "Every time I watch this, I feel so insignificant. Our suffering is nothing compared to this. Everyone here has survived near-death experiences, lost their families, and suffered immense loss. Such heavy words, yet they are nothing to them." —From *No Conflict Between Old and New, Only Truth and Falsehood Are Enemies*
19. Van Gogh said to his brother: "Nothing is immortal, including art itself. The only immortal thing is
the understanding of people and the world that art conveys." —From *Only the Sound of Green Streams*
20. I live here. There is no perfect new world, no future to wait for, no understanding to seek from the outside world
, and no need to compare myself to anyone to judge myself. All I need to do is be here, in this place, in this body. —From *Only the Sound of Green Streams*
21. Bare land needs no decoration. Chen Xiwen said that China's land problem will definitely face a very big
hurdle. If this hurdle is overcome, it will bring immeasurable impetus to China's economy; if it is not overcome, all the people will pay the price. —From *Logic Peeled from the Soil*,
22. Once you understand Lu Anke, it will cause inner conflict. People will involuntarily think and
question many seemingly unshakeable common sense and values. Lu Anke is not trying to overturn anything; he is simply lifting the slab of life to show you the opposite side. —From *The Power of Incompetence*,
23. As Mandela said, if you don't do what you feel you should do because you're afraid others will see it, and you
hide it, it's as if no one can do it. If you do it and let others see it, it's as if anyone can do it, and then many people will do it. —From *The Power of Incompetence*,
24. Lu Anke wrote: "These things all failed, failed very badly. But if I had succeeded then, the immature
things would have become very big, and I would have become the kind of person I didn't like. Fate points out the path to take through failure." —From *The Power of Incompetence*
, 25. Lu Anke said: "My students need to find their own path in life, but what their path is, I can't possibly know."
"What I want to give them is the talent and strength needed to walk this path." — *The Power of Incompetence*
26. A lack of belonging is also the strongest feeling among contemporary Chinese people. In such a rapidly changing era, traditional families and communities have broken down, and new ones haven't been established. Emptiness only leads to consumption and destruction. Only when people can feel the satisfaction of creating their own world, without comparing themselves to others, without feeling abandoned because of money or external pressures, is there true belonging. — *The Power of Incompetence*
27. Lu Anke said, "What others admire about me is actually my incompetence. I am incompetent in striving for interests, incompetent in making judgments,
incompetent in planning goals, incompetent in demanding things from others, unable to establish expectations… In fact, there are no necessities in life, only unnecessary expectations. A life without any expectations or face is the most beautiful and free, because only then can one hear their own heart." — *The Power of Incompetence*
28. Yao Jiaxin stabbed Zhang Miao to death with the hands he used to play the piano, and his future was extinguished from that moment on. "Doing journalism is dealing with the diseases of this era. We are all patients of this era, and interviews are largely mutual inquiries among fellow patients." "
——"Interviews are mutual inquiries among patients"
29. "It's not just simple, not just parents, no matter who it is, if you tell others how they should be, that's the wrong
way." ——"Don't Ask Me Why I'm So Attached"
30. "Reconciliation is leaving a place in your heart for that person to come in." It's not about endurance, not about tolerance. Chen
Meng said, "The foundation of tolerance is understanding." When people can feel for others, their hearts soften. Softness is not weakness, but resilience. ——"Don't Ask Me Why I'm So Attached"
31. Objectivity means being involved in every aspect of an event, feeling it, and the conflicting feelings will naturally restrain each other,
achieving balance and presenting an "objective" result, revealing the true face of the world. ——"Don't Ask Me Why I'm So Attached"
32. When your eyes are sore and you look up, you see the city lights outside the window. The more you understand others, the less your personal joys and sorrows become. In the book, you see why the world has been the way it has been for thousands of years. What happens to you is just a part of inevitability. As Xiao Hong said, "Life itself is full of contradictions." " A nation is made up of individual people; it is created and determined by these people. Only a nation can possess those who seek truth, those who can think independently, those who can record reality, those who can selflessly
dedicate themselves to
this land, those who can defend their constitutional rights, and those who know the world is imperfect yet still refuse to give up. Only when a nation possesses such minds and souls can we say we are proud of our country. Only when a nation cherishes such minds and souls can we say we have the confidence to make tomorrow better." — "Chen Meng Never Dies"
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