Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

  • -- Frederick Douglass 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯

你要知道人们会服从什么,你就会知道他们会受到多少不公正和错误的惩罚;这种情况将继续下去,直到有人用言语或拳头,或两者兼而有之加以抵抗。暴君的极限是由他们压迫的人的忍耐力决定的。

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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。

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

出于某种原因,每当我看到不公正的行为和对公民自由的侵犯时,我似乎都会感到不安。我想我将来写的东西也会遵循这种风格。不管是小说还是非小说。

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

如果你继续寻找幸福所包含的东西,你将永远不会幸福。如果你在寻找生命的意义,你就永远不会活下去。

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

知道别人秘密的人不能做损害他们控制自己说话能力的事情。

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

科学上的新发现将继续为那些敢于冒险的人开辟一千个新的领域。

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

人们比别人认为的要聪明得多。