Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

  • -- William Temple 坦普尔

没有什么比习俗更能加强和巩固权威了;因为没有人轻易地不信任他和所有人一直以来所养成的习惯。

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Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

仅仅因为人们拥有权力,如果这看起来不对,就不要去做。如果它违反了你自己的原则,就不要去做。

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

以权相争的,不是用自己的聪明;他只是在利用他的记忆。