A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  • -- Margaret Atwood 玛格丽特·阿特伍德

声音是人类的天赋;它应该被珍惜和使用,尽可能地充分表达人类的语言。无能为力与沉默相伴。

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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

我一直认为,如果每个人在成年初期都能失明或失聪几天,那将是一件幸事。黑暗会使他珍惜光明;寂静会教会他声音的乐趣。

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

我现在生活在一种非常奇怪的寂静中。这是一种安静,有很多活动和噪音,来自一个我不生活在这个地球上的区域。

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

有时候演讲可以让事情变得更好。现在不是这样的时候。

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

据说音乐是天使的语言。

Injustice in the end produces independence.

不公正最终会产生独立。