A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
异议
Dissent
It is idle to await unanimity.
等待全体一致意见是徒劳的。
I share no one’s ideas. I have my own.
我不同意任何人的意见。我有我自己的。
I am not ready to back away from my views.
我不准备放弃我的观点。
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
持不同意见是爱国主义的最高形式。
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
反对并不等于做虚无主义者。
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
当所有人的想法都一样时,没有人会想得太多。
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
为什么你必须像其他人一样不墨守成规?
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
我多么讨厌那些一味追求随大流的人。
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
宣传很容易奏效,异议很容易被嘲笑。
There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
欧盟内部存在重大分歧。
Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.
没有什么是完整的,因此没有什么是可以免于批评的。
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
人类的救赎掌握在那些创造力失调的人手中。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
持不同政见者是每一个人在他生命中的那些时刻,当他暂时从群体中辞职,为自己考虑的时候。
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
每个人都同意这一点;但当我们开始定义真理时,分歧就开始了。
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
与你的朋友,你每天见到的大多数人的主流思想背道而驰,也许是你能做的最困难的英雄行为。
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
人们可能认为会有一个不允许异议的社会,但这并不是一个恐惧的社会,因为每个人都同意彼此的观点,因此没有人想要异议。
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
曾经有过一个因持不同政见者而死亡的社会吗?在我们的一生中,有几个人死于从众。
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
争论和意见分歧只能丰富我们的历史和文化。