I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

我认为自治的潜力很大,但我们必须记住,我们生活在一个人们可能有自由意志,但没有创造环境的世界。

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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

我们都不知道沉睡在人民精神中的所有潜力,也不知道当事件发生正确的相互作用时,人民能以何种方式给我们带来惊喜。

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

自由主义者通常认为,特定的义务,至少在正常情况下,必须由同意创造;它们不能被其他国家单方面强加。

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

我没有意识到有多少人仍然对我正在做的事情感兴趣,如果不是因为我在网上,我永远不会认识这些人。

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

很少有人能触及到表面,更不用说对自己经历的沉思了。

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

我从来没有责怪皮诺切特,或者我的折磨者,或者外部环境。