He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

要使自己的自由得到保障,就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务,他就为自己树立了一个先例。

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When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

当你在做唱片的时候,如果你花太多的时间在上面,你必须把它的音调放低,或者把音调放低,因为你够不到一些音符,我发现。但是当你上台时,你必须把钥匙放上去,这真的改变了整个事情。

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

人们必须团结起来,一起工作。我厌倦了白人对我们施加的那种压迫,现在仍在试图施加这种压迫。

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.

没有人能做这个或那个来阻止别人获得真正的自由。我们总是自由的。即使关押。

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

如果自由意味着什么,那就是告诉人们他们不想听的话的权利。

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

一个渺小的人最可悲的证明莫过于不相信伟人。

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

你可以有和平。或者你可以有自由。永远不要指望同时拥有两者。

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

自由是做我喜欢做的事的权利;执照,做你喜欢做的事的权利。

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

一旦你做了一个决定,宇宙就会联合起来让它发生。

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

因为我的身高,我没能进入国际象棋队。

I love anything that gets me outside of my own head.

我喜欢任何能让我跳出自己思维的东西。

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

伸手去拿它。把自己逼得越远越好。