Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

  • -- Vita Sackville-West 韦斯特

权威完全有理由害怕怀疑论者,因为权威很少能在怀疑面前生存。

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

政治活动家的工作不可避免地涉及在当前问题出现时必须采取立场的要求和希望自己的贡献能在时间的破坏中以某种方式幸存下来的愿望之间的某种紧张关系。

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

一个相信的人比一个怀疑的人更幸福,就像一个喝醉的人比一个清醒的人更幸福一样。

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

我向特殊人物的权威低头,因为这是我自己的理智强加于我的。

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

你们从前的祖宗西班牙人、现在没有权柄管你们了。

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

每一个精通一门专业的人都对它持怀疑态度。

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

如果你想生存下去,你必须醒来,你必须奔跑。