A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Freedom
It's best not to wonder at what cost. Freedom is the only price to pay for anything in this place.
最好不要去想要付出什么代价。在这个地方,自由是为任何东西付出的唯一代价。
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
如果我们不相信我们所鄙视的人的言论自由,我们就根本不相信它。
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it.
没有人能给你自由。没有人能给你平等或正义。如果你是个男人,你就接受它。
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
人们要求言论自由,以补偿他们很少使用的思想自由。
Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.
自由需要你发现你自己的内在语言——你自己的生活规则——你自己的愿景。
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
自由的雕像还没有铸造,熔炉还很热,我们都还能烧伤手指。
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
但是自由,自由,是灵魂的一种属性,它甚至可能存在于肉体受束缚的时候。
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
只有在事先知道其效果是有益的情况下才给予的自由不是自由。
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.
此时此地,你有做自己的自由,做真正的自己,没有什么能阻挡你。
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
对于新获得的自由所产生的罪恶,只有一种治疗方法,那就是自由。
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
有一件事是肯定的,在自由与恐惧之间的战争中,我们这边会有更好的t恤。
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
我们大多数人都被某种东西囚禁着。我们生活在黑暗中,直到有东西打开开关。
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
因为自由不仅仅是挣脱自己的枷锁,而是以尊重和增进他人自由的方式生活。
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
反抗暴君就是服从上帝。
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
直到末后的王被末后祭司的肠子勒死,人才能得自由。
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
自由永远不会超过一代人就会灭绝。我们没有通过血液把病毒传给我们的孩子。我们必须为之奋斗,保护之,并让他们也这样做。
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
当我们让自己的光芒闪耀时,我们无意识地允许别人也这样做。当我们从恐惧中解放出来时,我们的存在自动地解放了他人。