Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

  • -- Wilhelm von Humboldt 威廉·冯·洪堡

胁迫可以防止许多违法行为;但它甚至剥夺了合法行为的一部分美。自由可能导致许多罪过,但它甚至给罪恶带来一种不那么可耻的形式。

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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

因此,强迫非侵入性行为,即使是正当的,也是正当的,理由是它确保了,不是最低限度的“侵入,而是最低限度的痛苦”。

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。

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

拖延常常使我们失去机会,使我们无法派遣部队。