Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  • -- Fareed Rafiq Zakaria 法雷德·拉菲克·扎卡里亚

保守派过去相信要面对残酷的事实,而不是屈服于令人宽慰的童话。一些还在做。

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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

保守主义抛弃处方,逃避原则,否定进步;它拒绝一切对古代的尊重,对现在没有任何补偿,对未来也没有任何准备。

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉,而只是宇宙的一部分,只是其中的一部分,只是面对它——外星人。

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

国防承包商能够获得巨大的利润,但却很少面临这些利润本应作为回报的风险。