Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

言论自由和财产权在法律上属于个人,但它们的真正功能是社会的,造福于广大不行使这些权利的人。

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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

我们说得对,不能容忍言论自由的文化是……有很多积极的人类体验是在那种文化中无法获得的。我们想要这些体验是对的。

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

就我自己的回忆录而言,它们是真实的,我写的每件事都满怀期待,总有一天会在法庭上播出,我也完全准备好了接受法律上的挑战。

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

上帝只希望男人和女人在一起,合法地结婚,只要他们彼此相爱。