It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

被少数人压迫是不好的，但被多数人压迫更坏。因为群众中有一种潜在的力量，叫它发挥作用，少数人是很难抗拒的。但出于全体人民的绝对意志，除了叛国之外，没有任何呼吁，没有任何救赎，没有任何庇护。

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

正是因为它所承诺的权力感，邪恶才常常吸引弱者。

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

我们不应该祈求能力所能胜任的任务，而应该祈求能力所能胜任的任务，在我们朝着遥远的目标前进时，怀着永远叩击我们心灵之门的伟大愿望勇往直前。

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

权力很难享受或将幽默和讽刺纳入其控制体系。

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

每一个人都有能力做社区作为一个整体无力做到的事情。

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

只是，我们不仅应该感激那些我们可能同意其观点的人，而且应该感激那些表达了更肤浅观点的人;因为在我们面前发展思想的力量，这些人也有所贡献。

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

有能力给予比有能力接受更令人愉快。

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

仅仅向人们展示如何生活得更好是不够的:任何拥有强大沟通能力的团体都有向人们展示如何变得更好的使命。

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

据说权力会导致腐败，但事实上，权力更能吸引腐败的人。理智的人通常被权力以外的东西所吸引。

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

对自己的错误视而不见是权势者的诅咒。

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

正是通过这种神秘的力量，我们才有了我们的存在，因此我们向我们的邻居，甚至向我们的动物邻居，屈服，就像我们自己居住在这片辽阔的土地上一样。

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

的确，国家的领土是我们的。的确，它是靠全国人民的英勇和财富获得的。但是，我们对它没有任何专断的权力。

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

人们很难相信这样一个简单的事实:每个迫害者都曾经是受害者。然而，应该非常明显的是，一个从小就被允许感到自由和强大的人，没有必要去羞辱另一个人。

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

在这一时刻，你们不仅有能力完成一项开明的政治家风范，而且作为全能的工具，有能力恢复人类的自由。

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

在我看来，虽然权力通常意味着权力的转移，即某个人或群体对另一个人或群体的转移，但我们有可能与一种共同发展的权力，一种共同主动的权力，而不是一种强制权力，共同发展权力的概念。