A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。

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In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

事实上,绝大多数人已经死亡,预计死于艾滋病的人以及感染艾滋病毒的人都在撒哈拉以南非洲。

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

地球上最小的少数是个体。那些否认个人权利的人不能自称是少数群体的捍卫者。

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

当我们处于少数时,勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候,宽容的考验就来了。

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

设计不只是外观和感觉。设计就是它的工作原理。

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

每一种新观点,从一开始就只占少数。

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

一个男人和他的感觉一样老,一个女人和她的外表一样老。