A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
异议
Dissent
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。
You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
随着时间的推移,你可以看到人们是否准备持不同意见。
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
在一些案件中,不同意见已及时成为法律。
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
相比之下,恐惧社会是禁止持不同意见的社会。
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。
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
没有人能恐吓整个国家,除非我们都是他的同谋。
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
自由是在讨论、异议和辩论的铁砧上锤出来的。
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
提出异议的正当权利是个人的一项存在权利。
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
自由社会是持不同意见的权利得到保护的社会。
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
最终,压制异见比冒着异端邪说的风险更糟糕。
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
在一个普遍存在欺骗的时代,讲真话变成了一种革命性的行为。
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
除了和我们意见相同的人以外,我们很少找到有理智的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
此外,科学的存在只是通往真理的一段旅程。压制异议,你就结束了这段旅程。
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。
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
那些开始强制消除异见者的人很快就会发现自己在消灭异见者。强制的意见统一只能达到墓地的一致。
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
几个世纪以来,世界各地的许多机构都在尝试这种方法。他们强迫人们参加只有一个目的的考试,那就是消灭异议。
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。
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
不合作是对纪律和牺牲的一种衡量,它要求尊重对立的观点。