The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

荒谬的特权;除了人以外,没有任何生物服从于它。

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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

我认为,生活在没有那么多特权、机会或浮夸的文化中的人,对命运的运作有更多的尊重,以及人们发现自己所处的局限,而这些局限并不是他们自己的过错。

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

我所要做的就是尽可能地认真和敏锐地构思一个角色,并诚实地刻画这个角色。如果幽默是在荒谬和可怕的情况下,那么让它被这样看待。

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

人们很少,或者更确切地说,从来没有一段时间,故意反抗任何不值得反抗的东西。

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

单一支付者对每个人都有不同的意义。我对它的定义是,医疗保健是一种权利,而不是特权。

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

人是如此简单,如此倾向于服从眼前的需要,以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

试图改变未来是一种明显的荒谬。