States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

国家不是道德的行动者,而是人,而且可以将道德标准强加给强大的机构。

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任,你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确,有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

把我们从官僚主义中拯救出来的唯一办法就是效率低下。一个有效率的官僚机构是对自由的最大威胁。

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

“摆脱恐惧的自由”可以说是对整个人权哲学的概括。

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

世界上没有好坏之分,只有思想使然。

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

人类对人类的不人道使无数的人哀悼!

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

虚伪是罪恶对美德的崇敬。