It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

  • -- Friedrich List 李斯特

监管一切是糟糕的政策……在那里,事情可以更好地自我调节,通过私人努力可以得到更好的促进;但是,不去管那些只能通过干预社会权力来推动的事情,同样是糟糕的政策。

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

我只能注意到,过去是美好的,因为一个人从来没有意识到当时的情绪。它后来扩展开来,因此我们对现在没有完整的情感,只有对过去的情感。

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

重大的社会运动最终会淡出人们的视野,不是因为它们已经减少,而是因为它们已经成为我们的感知和经验的一个永久组成部分。

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

只有深入游戏的人,才能在游戏中表现出自己的个性。

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

如果你想研究现代国家的社会和政治史,那就去研究地狱吧。

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

我写得越轻松,传达的信息就越好。

What cannot gold do?

黄金不能做什么?