The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

  • -- William Lloyd Garrison 加里森

人民的冷漠足以使每一座雕像从基座上跃起,加速死者的复活。

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One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it. Nothing is material in space.

一个人绕着雕像走,就像绕着一幅画走一样,因为一个人绕着一个人物走,并不是为了从它那里得到一个印象。太空中没有物质。

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

你被树立起来,被人崇拜,然后人们想把你打倒。这可能是有害的。有些人试图让我看起来很糟糕或者不是个好人,但这是完全错误的。

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

我不想表达异化。这不是我的感觉。我对各种充满激情的参与感兴趣。我所有的工作都告诉我要严肃,要有激情,要清醒。

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

雕刻家通过凿掉大理石中不需要的部分来雕刻出美丽的雕像,这是一个淘汰的过程。

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

不服从是美德中最罕见、最勇敢的一种,很少与忽视、最懒惰和最常见的恶习区分开来。

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

为什么你要急着移除任何伤害你眼睛的东西,而如果有什么东西影响了你的灵魂,你就把治疗推迟到明年?

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

我们的分分秒秒,都像波浪涌向卵石海岸,急匆匆地奔向终点。

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

我并不认为自己高高在上,无所不能。