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It would diminish the importance [of newspapers] to believe that they only serve to guarantee freedom; they maintain civilization.
如果(报纸)认为它们只服务于保障自由，那么它的重要性就会降低;他们保持文明。
— Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔
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更多好句 ↗Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
学校的目的不是教化一个邪恶的世界，而是传授知识和发展智力，只有两个社会目标:做好准备，在世界的工作中承担自己的一份，或许还有，在完成学业后，帮助改善社会。
Jacques Martin Barzun
雅克·马丁·巴赞
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
当我们自己违法时，无论短期利益如何，我们明显是在鼓励他人违法;因此，我们鼓励混乱和不稳定，从而对我们自己的长期利益造成无法估量的损害。
James William Fulbright
富布赖特
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
批评和悲观主义摧毁了家庭，破坏了各种制度，几乎打败了所有人，并给整个国家蒙上了一层阴霾。
Gordon B. Hinckley
戈登·兴格莱
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
我们社会的价值观正在被广告对等式的坚持所破坏:青春等于受欢迎，受欢迎等于成功，成功等于幸福。
John Fisher
约翰·费舍尔
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
新闻自由本身不是目的，而是实现自由社会的一种手段。
Felix Frankfurter
费利克斯法兰克福
Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.
即使是为改变社会结构所作的微小努力，最终也会收获巨大的成果。
Narendra Modi
莫迪·纳伦德拉