问为什么你不能在未经允许的情况下举起无辜的手指，而你缺乏最简单的推理能力让他们感到困惑。必须始终持有许可证；当局还能如何维持社会秩序呢？在任何情况下，这都会阻止你。当局没有其他方法可以维持社会秩序。旧世界的悲剧在于，权威维持社会秩序的唯一方式必然会破坏社会秩序以及任何试图维持社会秩序的权威形式。旧世界的生产能力总是被不断增加的官僚的精力所削弱。
(Ask why you can't lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must always have a permit; how else could the authorities maintain the social order? In every instance, that will stop you. There is no other way by which Authority can maintain a social order. The tragedy of the Old World is that this only way by which Authority can maintain a social order must inevitably destroy the social order and any form of Authority that tries to maintain it. The energy of a constantly increasing number of bureaucrats has always been subtracted from productive energy in the Old World.)
