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自由
Freedom
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.
我们的本性被匮乏或恐惧的强迫所做的工作所遮蔽。母亲在为孩子服务的过程中表现出她自己，所以我们真正的自由不是行动的自由，而是行动的自由，只有在爱的工作中才能获得。
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
当人们谈论写作、说话或思考的自由时，我只能笑。从来没有这样的东西存在过。现在不存在这样的东西;但我希望它会存在。但这一定是在你我不再写信和说话之后的几百年以后了。
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
对于卡通来说，幽默本质上是黑色的，是复杂的。但与此同时，漫画给了编剧比普通情景喜剧更多的自由。它总是强调，尽管人类有缺点，但辛普森一家确实是正派的人。
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
没有普选，没有不受限制的新闻和集会自由，没有自由的意见斗争，每一个公共机构的生命就会消亡，成为仅仅是表面的生命，其中只有官僚机构仍然是积极的因素。
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
最终，自然是无情的:它没有理由匆忙，迟早会夺走属于它的东西。无意识地、顽固地服从自己的法则，它不懂艺术，就像它不懂自由，就像它不懂善良一样。
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
在我们的世界里，自由的势头是不容置疑的，它不是由我们的力量独自推进的。我们可以相信那引导着岁月发展的更大的力量。在一切将来的事上，我们可以知道他的旨意是公义真实的。
The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
一个人的行为中，唯一能使他对社会顺从的部分，就是与他人有关的部分。就他自己而言，他的独立性是绝对的，是正确的。对他自己，对他自己的身体和思想，个人是至高无上的。
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
有趣的是，塑造未来的应该是政治家。但这个政治框架本身是如此的死寂和封闭，以至于人们转向其他来源，比如艺术家，因为艺术和音乐给了人们一定的自由。
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
我想说的是战地记者比士兵有更多的酒，更多的女孩，更好的薪水，更大的自由，但是在游戏的这个阶段，有选择自己的位置的自由，被允许成为一个懦夫而不被处决是他的折磨。
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
自由不仅仅是随心所欲的机会;这也不仅仅是在既定的选择中进行选择的机会。首先，自由是形成可用选择的机会，是就这些选择进行辩论的机会，然后是做出选择的机会。
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
骑车有一定的自由度:你可以自己决定去哪里。如果你看到什么东西吸引了你的视线，你可以转向左边，这在汽车里不太容易，你不能走太多的路。
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.
从我们选择爱的那一刻起，我们就开始反抗统治，反抗压迫。从我们选择爱的那一刻起，我们就开始走向自由，以解放自己和他人的方式行动。这种行为是爱作为自由实践的证明。
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
没有人有权规定其他人应该感知、创造或生产什么，但应该鼓励所有人展示自己、自己的感知和情感，并在创新精神中建立信心。
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
如果我们在这里失去自由，就没有地方可逃。这是地球上的最后一站。
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。
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
请给我自由，让我知道，让我说出，让我根据良心自由地辩论，而不是一切自由。
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
最勇敢的行为还是为自己着想。出声来。
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
自由是说二加二等于四的自由。如果这是被允许的，所有其他的都随之而来。