Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

革命产生于对暴政的愤慨,而革命本身孕育着暴政。

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人,我知道,法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

对自由的渴望也使人感到是对国内暴政或专制统治的斗争。

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

我们是如此平静,以至于最小的反对之声都被视为一场全面的革命。

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

只有当一个人日复一日地用生命去换别的东西而不是生命本身时,生命才有意义。

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

革命是在未来和过去之间走向死亡的斗争。

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

说得足够清楚,一个想法可能会自我抵消。