To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

  • -- Mikhail Bakunin 巴枯宁

使我彻底绝望的是,我发现,而且每天都有新的发现,群众中没有革命的思想,没有希望,没有激情。

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The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

其理念是,国家无权限制个人的欲望和激情。我不同意这一点。我认为我们绝对有权利,因为让人们随心所欲地生活是有后果的。

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

革命不是某种固定的意识形态,也不是某种特定年代的产物。这是人类精神中一个永恒的过程。

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

乌托邦主义可能是产生超人努力的必要社会手段,没有这种努力,就不会有重大革命。

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

我想每个人在某个时候都会对自己说,‘我有一个开餐馆的好主意。’

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

我从来没有恐吓过大众……我只吓唬贪官污吏。

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

没有所谓的私人生活,所有的生活都是公开的。

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

但在绝望中死去的人,他的一生都是徒劳的。