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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

他们的贫困保障了他们的自由，因为我们的欲望和财产是专制制度最强大的枷锁。

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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

有某些事情,他们很明显,显然,不无聊,但是我的意思是很明显,两个明显和容易的被甘地和自由而哭泣,有些事情我做非常关心,我想站起来和计算。

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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

我从未见过如此天真的信念与更大的智力贫困相关联。

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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

专制越彻底，一切事物在表面上就越顺畅。

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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

我们感到自由，因为我们缺乏表达我们不自由的语言。

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

孤独是自我的贫乏;孤独是自我的丰富。

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Despotism is a long crime.

专制是长期的罪行。

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