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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

被少数人压迫是不好的,但被多数人压迫更坏。因为群众中有一种潜在的力量,叫它发挥作用,少数人是很难抗拒的。但出于全体人民的绝对意志,除了叛国之外,没有任何呼吁,没有任何救赎,没有任何庇护。

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

我学会了更多的放松。每个人在他们所做的事情中都会感到压力,也许我的只是有点不同,因为每天似乎没有足够的时间来完成我想做的事情。

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

当你是少数派时,不管你的议程是什么,你都不会拥有作为多数派成员所拥有的自由度。

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

当黑人赋权似乎受益的不是绝大多数人,而是倾向于循环利用的精英阶层时,它是什么?

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

信念是黎明前黑暗时仍能感觉到光明的鸟。

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。