There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

  • -- Johann Kaspar Lavater 拉瓦特

有三类人;逆行,平稳和进步。

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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

政治极端主义包括两个主要因素:对世界弊病的过于简单的诊断,以及坚信在这一切背后有可识别的恶棍。

Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

保守主义者:迷恋现存罪恶的政治家,与自由主义者不同,自由主义者希望用其他罪恶取而代之。

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

春天和夏天,我们是改革者;在秋天和冬天,我们站在老;早上是改革者,晚上是服务器。

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

不要温和地进入那个美好的夜晚,老年应该在白天燃烧和咆哮;怒斥,怒斥光明的消逝。

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

我评估意志的力量是看它承受了多少阻力、痛苦和折磨,并知道如何利用它的优势。

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

我们这些自由进步的人知道,穷人与我们在任何意义上都是平等的,除了与我们平等之外。

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

一个狂热的人是一个不能改变他的想法,也不会改变话题的人。

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.

一个自由主义者是一个目前利益不受威胁的人。