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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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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

我不禁担心，人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险，把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦，把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步，而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

如果人民失去他们的粗暴和反抗精神，暴政就不会在任何一周、任何一天、任何时刻降临这个国家。

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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。

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

知识分子是那种能观察自己思想的人。

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All revolutions devour their own children.

所有革命都吞噬了他们自己的孩子。

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