健康的社会不禁闭“胡言乱语”

亨德里克·威廉·房龙《宽容》：Nonsense, like dynamite, is only dangerous when it is contained in a small and hermetically closed space and subjected to a violent impact from without. A poor devil, full of half-baked economic notions, when left to himself will attract no more than a dozen curious listeners and as a rule will be laughed at for his pains.

The same creature handcuffed to a crude and illiterate sheriff, dragged to jail and condemned to thirty years of solitary confinement, will become an object of great pity and in the end will be regarded and honored as a martyr.

大意是说：胡说八道、胡言乱语，就象炸药一样，在密闭的空间是危险的。