"There is something I consider fundamental in the present time. We should not belittle the people who lived in the past and who created our present (with all its good or bad). Often, the belittling of the past is not done out of objectivity but out of expediency; it hides our own pettiness. Some, when they cannot reach high, try to bring down the greats of yesterday to the low. This is happening today, in the name of the 'new teaching' or in the name of some nebulous 'deconstructive history,' with which they try to eliminate anything that can be called 'nation' and 'national,' and first of all the national history and national literature, which inspire national spirit and the national policy of independence. Thus, the people who created 1821 are systematically tarnished."