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自由
Freedom
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
我是那种……-我不是说我很完美，但我需要那种自由，那种犯错的能力。因为犯错和聪明之间只有一线之隔。
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。
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
在政治自由主义中，人的自由是不受个人、个人统治和主人的自由;保护每个人不受他人侵害，个人自由。
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
在我们的国家里，由于上帝的仁慈，我们拥有三种说不出的宝贵的东西:言论自由、良心自由，以及从不实践这三种东西的谨慎。
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
每个人都有四种天赋——自我意识、良知、独立意志和创造性想象力。这些给了我们终极的人类自由……选择、回应和改变的能力。
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
画家们总是需要一种能使他们集中注意力的面纱。就好像意识被吸收得越充分，其背后的精神自由就越大。
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need
我很幸运能得到这样的自由。每个艺术家都需要两种自由:一种是你需要的自由——提出一个想法或治疗方法的自由——另一种是你需要的自由
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
我爱我的男人如同爱我的同胞;但是他的权杖，不管是真的还是被篡夺的，都不会伸向我，除非出于个人的原因需要我的尊敬;就是这样，也是顺服理性，不是顺服人。
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
无产阶级利用国家不是为了自由，而是为了压制它的敌人，一旦谈到自由，国家就不复存在了。
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
这是一个多么奇怪的现象，你可以让人们为世界的自由而死，而他们却不愿做出必要的小小的牺牲，把自己从个人的束缚中解放出来。
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
据说，自由主义者对别人的钱很慷慨，除非涉及到国家存亡的问题，他们更愿意对别人的自由和安全慷慨。
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
也许那些热爱人类的人的使命就是让人们嘲笑真理，让真理发笑，因为唯一的真理在于学会把自己从对真理的疯狂激情中解放出来。
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
一个将平等置于自由之上的社会将两者都得不到。一个将自由置于平等之前的社会将在这两方面都得到高度重视。
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
一个人在灵性的阶梯上爬得越高，他就会给别人更多的自由，并且对别人的意识状态给予更少的干涉。
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
焦虑是自由的眩晕。
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
你有一个选择。是死是活。每一次呼吸都是一种选择。每一分钟都是一种选择。生存还是毁灭。
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
概念是一块砖。它可以用来建造一个理性的法院。也可以从窗户扔出去。
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
那些愿意放弃基本自由而换取一点暂时安全的人，既不配享有自由，也不配享有安全。