Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

无论什么东西,只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的,人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。

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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

我母亲从来没有让我为我的兄弟们做过任何事,比如服侍他们。我认为这是很重要的一课,尤其是对拉丁文化来说,因为女性被期望成为服务员和厨师等等。我们家没有。每个人都是平等的。

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

我将进一步努力进行这项调查,我相信这项调查不仅是推测性的,而且有足够的时间来激发令人高兴的希望,使其从根本上造福于人类。

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

那些试图用仪式和音乐来阻碍人类的思想,影响慈善和奉献来满足人类思想的人已经失去了他们的本性。

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

人们总是把我塑造成他们所说的“权威”。

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

我认为,对大多数形式的权威,都存在明显的不尊重。

My days are whatever I want them to be.

我的每一天都是我想要的。