Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

集体恐惧会激发群体的本能,并倾向于对那些不被视为群体成员的人产生凶残的行为。

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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

我们已经学会说,只有把善扩展到整个社会,才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是,我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献,否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

法律,以其庄严的平等,禁止富人和穷人睡在桥下,在街上乞讨,偷面包。

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

一个明智的教育体系最终会教会我们,一个人知道的东西是多么的少,他还需要学习的东西是多么的多。

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

由于存在对多数人的压迫,这种压迫将以日益增长的仇恨进行斗争。

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

人类的多样性使宽容超过美德;这是生存的必要条件。

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

你不能影响那些你根本看不起的人。