The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

  • -- Isaiah Berlin 以赛亚·伯林

自由的基本意义是摆脱枷锁,摆脱监禁,摆脱他人的奴役。剩下的就是这个意义的延伸,或者隐喻。

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It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.

获胜并不需要多数人的支持,而是需要不知疲倦、愤怒的少数人的支持,他们渴望在头脑中点燃一团灌木丛。

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

只有首先证明自己是可以接受的,我们才会考虑如何被别人接受。