Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

每一种新观点,从一开始就只占少数。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.

有你爱的人在你身边,和他们一起组建家庭,这是你一生中最美好的事情。你不能要求更多了。

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

对我们来说,如果我们能打开我们的思想和眼睛,透过每一颗星星,透过每一片草叶,上帝就不会显现。

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

它不需要多数人的支持就能获胜,而需要的是愤怒的、不知疲倦的少数人的支持,他们热衷于在人们的头脑中燃起熊熊烈火。

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

所以我们靠这把剑生活,我们要不时地从它的反弹中解脱出来。

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

没有人能比我对他有更高的评价,我认为他是个肮脏的小畜生。

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

我认为我们生活的这个时代开始变得可怕了。