An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  • -- Martin Luther King Jr 马丁·路德·金

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

在事情进行的时候,不要使你的灵魂烦恼;他们不理会你的烦恼。对生活中可能发生的任何事情感到惊讶是多么可笑和古怪。

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

人类的历史始于人类的反抗行为,而这正是人类自由和理性发展的开端。

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

我不是政治家。我只是想帮助减轻社区的痛苦,我想帮助人们看到彼此的社区。

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

我们正在寻找诗歌和精神的品牌,因为我们没有从我们的社区或彼此那里得到这些东西。

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

如果一个人要对自己的良心负责,他就必须拒绝对他的领袖负责。

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

对我来说,左派意味着与不公正和不平等作斗争,但最重要的是,我们想过得好。

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

如果你生命中的某个人用你对自己说话的方式对你说话,你早就离开他们了。

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

个性训练的一个步骤是把责任放在个人身上。

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

为未来的和平而努力,就是为现在的和平而努力。

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

与以往一样,要么适应,要么灭亡,是大自然的必然要求。

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

媒体不需要良心;人们需要良知。

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

恐惧,源于那位严厉的主妇,责任。