Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

个人对集体努力的承诺——这就是团队工作、公司工作、社会工作、文明工作的原因。

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

除非智慧攻击权力，否则它不会达到它的全部力量。

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

最终决定自由是否存在的不是自由的事实，而是自由的行使方式。

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。

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

我对自由社会的定义是，不受欢迎是安全的。

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -- moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -- but no opinion.

意见是在公开讨论和公开辩论的过程中形成的，在没有形成意见的机会的地方，可能会有情绪——群众的情绪和个人的情绪，个人的情绪和群众的情绪一样反复无常和不可靠——但没有意见。

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

选票比子弹更有威力。

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

一直以来的呼声是，一旦宣战，所有的反对意见都应保持沉默。对于一个自由国家来说，一种更不值得的情绪是难以传播的。

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

地球已经准备好了，时机已经成熟，可以权威地表达女性以及男性对共同社会共识的解释，这种共识正在慢慢地在国家中书写正义，在社会秩序中书写友爱。

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

最重要的政治职务是普通公民的职务。

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

唯一能克服一种思想和信仰的力量是另一种更好的思想和信仰，积极地、无畏地坚持下去。

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

不平等最糟糕的形式是试图使不平等的东西平等。

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

地球飞船上没有乘客。我们都是船员。

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

卓越的天才使人走旁人走过的路变得平坦。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

投票是少数几件抵制抗议的事情之一，这显然会让问题变得更糟，而不是更好。