Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

保守主义抛弃处方,逃避原则,否定进步;它拒绝一切对古代的尊重,对现在没有任何补偿,对未来也没有任何准备。

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Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

经典的东西需要大量的排练时间和准备,但是如果是即兴的东西,你可能会排练过多,而且会变得陈旧。你不想让它太舒服。事实上,好的声音检查,好的排练通常意味着糟糕的表演。

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

从来没有放弃。这是世界上最容易的逃避。设定一个目标,不达目的不罢休。当你达到目标时,设定另一个目标,在达到之前不要放弃。从来没有放弃。

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的,是最后的、最后的考验和证明,所有其他工作都只是准备工作。

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

所有的保守主义都是建立在这样一种思想之上的:如果你不去管事情,你就会顺其自然。但你没有。如果你不去管一件事,你就把它留给一股变革的洪流。

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

没有黑人保守派。哦,有一些新保守主义者的皮肤是黑色的,但他们除了生物学上的肤色外,没有任何黑皮肤的主张。他们忘记了自己的根。

Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

自由主义是由保守主义的红利资助的。