The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

  • -- Ayn Rand 艾恩·兰德

地球上最小的少数是个体。那些否认个人权利的人不能自称是少数群体的捍卫者。

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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。

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

我们生活的世界告诉我们不要在意,要消费眼前的一切。它告诉我们,酷和作为一个个体实际上意味着买别人买的和做别人做的。

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

没有什么比个人责任更能强化判断,更能唤醒良知。