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In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
在历史的大部分时间里，社会都不是自由的。这是一个非常罕见的自由社会。人类社会的默认状态是暴政。
— Michael Novak 迈克尔·诺瓦克
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更多好句 ↗If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
如果历史不断重演，而意想不到的事情总是发生，那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。
George Bernard Shaw
萧伯纳
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
Gao Xingjian
高行健
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
新闻自由本身不是目的，而是实现自由社会的一种手段。
Felix Frankfurter
费利克斯法兰克福
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.
诗歌的命运就是不顾历史，与世界相爱。
Derek Walcott
沃尔科特
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中，那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。
Charles Darwin
查尔斯·达尔文