The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

绝大多数人不喜欢甚至实际上害怕所有他们不熟悉的概念。因此,创新者一出现就受到迫害,总是被嘲笑为傻瓜和疯子。

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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

听着,我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱,特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

因此,关于道德多数的争论不仅来自其观点,而且来自其名称——在许多人看来,这似乎意味着只有一套公共政策是道德的,而且只有一种多数可能是正确的。

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

当傻瓜逃避一套错误时,他们会碰到另一套错误。

Never let fools see half-finished work.

不要让傻瓜看到未完成的工作。