It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

每一个为自己珍视良心自由的人,都有责任在他人的情况下抵制良心自由的侵犯,否则,由于环境的变化,他们的情况可能会变成他自己的情况。

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I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

我认为这是一种代际变化,在成长过程中总是能接触到互联网的新一代对个人信息和需要保密的内容有不同的看法。

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

现在,我不指望我写的东西能改变什么。我想我现在写作只是作为一个证人。事情就是这样。这就是我们所做的。这是我们所允许的。

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

事实是,一个人如果想在各方面都表现得高尚,必然会在那么多不高尚的人中间陷入悲哀。

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

男人表现得好像对婚姻感到恐惧,但当他们找到自己的梦中情人时,他们爱上了她。

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

总而言之,我们可以说柏拉图哲学的目的是把人提升为神。

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

我所受的教育是一种自由,我可以不加选择地阅读,而且一直睁大眼睛。

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

直到分离的时候,爱才知道它有多深。

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

个人自由是人类进步的必要前提。

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

媒体不需要良心;人们需要良知。

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

除了我自己的困惑,我没有什么可以提供给任何人。

Every chance that you get, is a chance you seize.

你得到的每一个机会,都是你抓住的一个机会。

I have a clear conscience.

我问心无愧。