A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

激进派一般指的是认为自己能在不影响花的情况下拔出根部的人。保守主义者通常指的是想要保护一切的人,除了他自己保护任何东西的理由。

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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

我喜欢男人拥有女人永远无法理解的东西,因为我们没有经历过,而女人拥有男人无法理解的东西,因为只有她拥有。

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

如果你是对的,你就不能太激进;当你错了的时候,你不能太保守。

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

保守的人是不做任何改变的人,当他有疑问的时候,他会咨询他的祖母。

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

真正激进是让希望成为可能,而不是让绝望令人信服。

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

生活在于一个人整天在想什么。

Conservative's the last thing I am.

保守是我最不愿意做的事。