To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

  • -- Garrett Hardin 加勒特·哈丁

说我们双方都同意强迫,并不是说我们必须享受强迫,甚至假装享受强迫。

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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

胁迫可以防止许多违法行为;但它甚至剥夺了合法行为的一部分美。自由可能导致许多罪过,但它甚至给罪恶带来一种不那么可耻的形式。

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

因此,强迫非侵入性行为,即使是正当的,也是正当的,理由是它确保了,不是最低限度的“侵入,而是最低限度的痛苦”。

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

世人以职业上的才能来判断一个人,我们也以同样的标准来判断自己:因为我们在生活中成功与否,也取决于这个标准。

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

当我们不能脱离自己的时候,我们就以吞噬自己为乐。