A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
极端主义
Extremism
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
极端的希望来自极端的苦难。
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
一个狂热的人是一个不能改变他的想法,也不会改变话题的人。
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
狂热是当你忘记目标时加倍努力。
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
有三类人;逆行,平稳和进步。
We must take care that our reaction to one extreme is not so violent as to thrust us to the other.
我们必须注意,我们对一种极端的反应不要太激烈,以免把我们推向另一种极端。
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.
考虑到深刻的社会变革,保守主义者总是期待灾难,而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
我要提醒你们,捍卫自由的极端主义不是罪恶!我还要提醒你们,追求正义的中庸不是美德。
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
政治极端主义包括两个主要因素:对世界弊病的过于简单的诊断,以及坚信在这一切背后有可识别的恶棍。
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
极端主义者令人反感和危险的地方不在于他们极端,而在于他们缺乏宽容。邪恶不在于他们怎么说他们的事业,而在于他们怎么说他们的对手。