The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

  • -- Ernest Renan 勒南

个人自由是人类进步的必要前提。

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

我一直告诉自己要冷静下来,对事情不要那么感兴趣,不要那么激动,但我仍然非常关心新闻自由、言论自由和公正。

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

文明要名副其实,就必须提供解决人类分歧的其他方法,而不是放血的方法。

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

很少人渴望自由;大多数人只希望有一个公正的主人。