There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

  • -- Robert Charles Winthrop 罗伯·查尔斯·温梭普

在真正的爱国主义的地图上没有指南针。

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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

我们学过阿克顿勋爵的格言:所有的权力都腐败,绝对的权力绝对腐败。当我开始写这些书的时候,我相信这一点,但现在我不再相信这一点了。权力并不总是腐败的。权力可以净化。我相信关于权力总是正确的是权力总是揭示。

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

有两种方法。你可以拿一个圆规,画一个完美的圆,使两只完美的眼睛尽可能整齐。或者你可以徒手做,玩得很开心。就像我所做的。给它的性格。

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

当权者总是认为批评他们的政策是危险的。他们总是把自己的政策等同于爱国主义,认为批评具有颠覆性。

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

人们对真实事物的幻想是如此不同寻常。我们生下来,死后面临永恒的灭绝,这是一种不同寻常的幻想。

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

一个人的国家不是一片特定的土地、山脉、河流和森林,而是一个原则,而爱国主义就是对这个原则的忠诚。

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

独自一人!独自一人!没有烽火台,无论远近!没有海图,没有罗盘,没有锚!