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

  • -- Unknown 佚名

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。

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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

在任何情况下,只有少数人抗议长期存在的法律和习俗的不公正,但这并不能证明压迫的事实是不成立的,而许多人的满足,如果是真实的,只能证明他们的冷漠和更深的堕落。

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

没有人能独自完成一场革命;有些革命是人类在不知不觉中完成的,因为每个人都掌握着它们。

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

人民的冷漠足以使每一座雕像从基座上跃起,加速死者的复活。

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

改革是纠正弊端;革命是权力的转移。