The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

文明进步中阻力最小的路线是通过不断增加的世界舆论力量使这一理论假设成为现实。

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

舆论是一种渗透的影响,它要求服从自己;它要求我们吸收别人的思想,说别人的话,遵循别人的习惯。

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

在我们的文明中,男人害怕自己不够男人,女人害怕自己可能被认为只是女人。

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

暴民法是一种异常民意最有力的表达方式;这表明社会已经腐败到了极点。

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

人类文明始于第一次一个愤怒的人用一个词来代替石头。