The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
Lu XunI entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.
Lu XunImagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?
Lu Xun