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自由主义者
Liberals
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
自称保守派的人比自称自由派的人更常向慈善机构捐款。他们捐的钱更多，收入的比例也更高。
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。
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
我坐在一个男人的背上，掐死他，让他背我，但我向自己和别人保证，我为他感到非常难过，希望尽一切可能减轻他的痛苦——除了从他背上下来。
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
如果你日复一日地听到，自由主义者在反对武装力量，这最终会对士兵产生影响，而士兵们实际上会相信这是错误的。这是错误的。
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
自由主义者并没有软化对现实的看法，使自己离梦想更近，而是使自己的观念更敏锐，为实现梦想而奋斗，或在绝望中放弃斗争。
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点，而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点，而是试探性地持有这些观点，并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。
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。
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
艺术界通常由自由主义者主导，因为如果你主要关注绘画或雕塑，你就没有时间去研究世界是如何运作的。如果你不懂经济、战略、历史和政治，那么你自然会成为一个自由主义者。
The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.
对我来说，最大的突破是，一旦我不再讨厌保守派，能够真正看到他们在哪些方面是正确的，他们向我展示了自由派在很多方面是错误的。但与此同时，我认为自由主义者在某些方面是正确的，而保守派却难以看到。
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.
事实上，自由主义者在一项名为“经验开放性”的主要人格特质上比保守派高得多。“对体验高度开放的人渴望新奇、多样化、多样性、新想法和旅行。低层次的人喜欢熟悉、安全、可靠的东西。
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I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.
我不介意别人叫我自由派。我只是觉得这不是真的。
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。
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
春天和夏天，我们是改革者;在秋天和冬天，我们站在老;早上是改革者，晚上是服务器。
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
自由派是一个心胸开阔的人，在争吵中不会站在自己一边。
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
通常，那些胡言乱语的自由主义者的嘴是可爱的，但在战争中，他们本能的愚蠢行为是危及生命的。
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
我的信仰一直是我生活的动力。我认为重要的是，那些被视为自由主义者的人不要害怕谈论道德和社区价值观。