If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

  • -- Friedrich August von Hayek 哈耶克

如果我们希望维持一个自由社会,我们必须认识到,某一特定目标的可取性并不是使用胁迫的充分理由。

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I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

我想谈谈自由市场。计算机时代的信息是地球上仅存的最后一个真正的自由市场,除了那些土著人还在生存的自由市场。这基本上是有限的。

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

在战斗结束并出现允许人民自由表达意愿的条件之前,不可能有选举,在这种情况下,世界任何地方都不会举行选举。

We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.

我们还必须为海洋自由和进一步在世界各地履行我们的经济和政治任务赢得真正充分和最重要的实际保障。

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

我想当底部开始下降时,我们没有意识到。

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

人们每天都看到上帝,只是不认识他。

Adequacy is sufficient.

充分性是充分的。