The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

  • -- Mark Helprin 普林

艺术界通常由自由主义者主导,因为如果你主要关注绘画或雕塑,你就没有时间去研究世界是如何运作的。如果你不懂经济、战略、历史和政治,那么你自然会成为一个自由主义者。

相关名言

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点,而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点,而是试探性地持有这些观点,并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

自由主义是慷慨的最高形式;这是大多数人向少数人承认的权利,因此这是这个星球上有史以来最崇高的呼声。

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

每个社会都会受到应有的惩罚。同样真实的是,每个社区都得到了它所坚持的那种执法。

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

一个种族融合的社区是从第一个黑人家庭的入口到最后一个白人家庭的出口的按时间顺序排列的术语。

The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

幸福的婚姻之所以如此之少,是因为年轻的女士们把时间都花在织网上,而不是放在笼子里。

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

事实上,他现在只属于我的过去,现在是我开始接受它的时候了,尽管这样做很伤人。