If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

如果对我采取胁迫手段的人能通过辩论使我达到他的目的,毫无疑问,他会的。他假装要惩罚我,因为他的论据很充分;但他真的惩罚了我,因为他的论点站不住脚。

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To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

怀疑自己的身体是运动员最大的弱点。有些时候,我的身体无法让自己去掌握一项技能,因为我在想,‘我的膝盖疼得很厉害。’

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

我已经非常明确地说过,包括在国情咨文中,我反对“不问不说”,我们将结束这一政策。

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

大学不是用来强迫他人的媒介,而是用来自由交流思想的媒介。

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

如果我们对该做什么有任何疑问,问问自己明天希望做什么是一个好习惯。

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

我建议的唯一一种强制是相互强制,由受影响的大多数人共同同意。

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

我反对什么都是白人,什么都是黑人。