Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

在任何读过历史的人看来,不服从是人的本性。进步是通过不服从,通过不服从和反叛取得的。

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他,但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

人类的历史始于人类的反抗行为,而这正是人类自由和理性发展的开端。

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

我认为,偶尔的一点反叛是一件好事,在政治世界里,就像在物质世界里,风暴一样必不可少。

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

夸夸其谈自己美德的人往往是最没有美德的人。

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

美德是不够的诱惑。