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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.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

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。

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

因此，现实理性的唯一对象是善与恶。因为前者是根据理性原则所必然要求的对象;后者必然被回避，这也是基于理性原则。

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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

当我拿着铲子走进花园，挖了一张床，我感到如此的兴奋和健康，我发现我一直在欺骗自己，让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

任何地方的不公正对任何地方的正义都是一种威胁。我们被困在一个不可逃避的相互联系的网络中，被命运的一件外衣所束缚。任何直接影响一个人的东西，都会间接地影响所有人。

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Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

也许我对这些问题不那么敏感，因为我看到人们首先需要的是经济安全，只有当他们有了经济安全，他们才有能力关注人权。

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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

只有一项基本人权，那就是随心所欲的权利。随之而来的是人类唯一的基本责任，承担后果的责任。

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

任何有趣的东西都是颠覆性的，每个笑话最终都是奶油蛋羹派……下流笑话是一种精神上的反叛。

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

永远记住，你不仅有权利成为一个独立的人，你也有义务成为一个独立的人。

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That we have "good reasons to" does not necessarily mean that we have "good reason to.

我们有“好的理由去做”并不一定意味着我们有“好的理由去做”。

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Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

对僵化的观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁，也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。

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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

正义甜美悦耳;但不公正是残酷和不和谐的。

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