Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

  • -- Tom McClintock 汤姆·麦克林托克

自由文明的社会不会孤立地关押囚犯。

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史,保存历史记录,吸取历史教训,并把它们与自身的问题联系起来,历史也将失去其意义。

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

我希望过一种无忧无虑的生活,我明白,如果我不能一直从事我的艺术,我将是不幸福的。

I've been a free man.

我是一个自由的人。