A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
保守派
Conservatives
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
政治不是左右之争;它是关于顶部和底部的。
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
每个社会都尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
有三类人;逆行,平稳和进步。
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
保守主义者不一定愚蠢,但大多数愚蠢的人都是保守主义者。
Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
改革是肯定的,保守主义是否定的;保守主义追求舒适,改革追求真理。
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
自由主义者觉得他们的财产不值得拥有。保守派认为他们所偷的一切都是他们应得的。
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
一个保守的人有两条完美的腿,然而,从来没有学会如何向前走。
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
自由主义是人民的信任,经过审慎的磨炼;保守主义,对人的不信任,被恐惧所调和。
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.
保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
保守派不知不觉地站在了破坏传统价值观的社会力量一边。
It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
众所周知,最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
保守派过去相信要面对残酷的事实,而不是屈服于令人宽慰的童话。一些还在做。
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A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.
一个忠诚的自由主义者可以与其他自由主义者为所欲为,只要这个忠诚的自由主义者是自由主义者,攻击保守派的左右派,说出正确的话,他们就可以为所欲为。
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
没有黑人保守派。哦,有一些新保守主义者的皮肤是黑色的,但他们除了生物学上的肤色外,没有任何黑皮肤的主张。他们忘记了自己的根。
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
最保守的观点是,秩序真的很难实现。它真的很珍贵,很容易失去。
And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
我是一个保守主义者。有时候,保守派忘记了我们应该节约,节约,高效。此外,我们对其他能源的依赖正使我们的国家变得不独立,变得非常脆弱。所以这是一个安全问题。