Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

普遍地启发人民,身体和精神的暴政和压迫就会像邪恶的幽灵一样在黎明时分消失。

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There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

有成千上万的人过着平静、绝望的生活,他们长时间、辛苦地做着自己讨厌的工作,为的是能买到自己不需要的东西,给自己不喜欢的人留下深刻印象。

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

你以前去过的一些地方非常棒,你甚至不介意回去。你以前去过的一些地方你再也不想回去了,比如冬天的蒙特利尔。

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

否定是心灵的第一自由,然而,消极的习惯只有在我们努力克服它,使它适应我们的需要时才会产生结果;一旦获得了它,我们就会身陷囹圄。

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

当我们处于牧师的暴政之下时,他们的利益永远是废除自然和理性的法律,以便建立与之不相容的制度。

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

一般来说,被吸引到新闻业的人对自下而上发生的事情更感兴趣,而不是自上而下。

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

年轻人最大的优点之一就是他们敢于质疑,他们非常关心正义,他们有开放的思想。

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

比起隔着半个地球的压迫和歧视,隔着半个地球的不公更容易激起人们的愤怒。

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

没有比强迫一个人为他不想要的东西付出代价更糟糕的暴政了,仅仅因为你认为这对他有好处。

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

我总是觉得我做不到,我看不完一部电影。但我最终还是完成了。

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

虽然我通常对生母的事情保持沉默,但她最近的长篇大论已经发生了重大转变。

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

但是,只有一件事能把人们聚集起来,引起煽动性的骚动,那就是压迫。

I believe people can move things with their minds.

我相信人们可以用他们的思想来改变事物。