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.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

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。

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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

使人聪明,使人自由。由此产生了公民自由;任何篡夺的权力都不能抵挡舆论的炮火。

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

我试着用这些问题和答案作为一个电枢,在上面建立一个真实对话的雕塑。

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

总是有关于我父母的问题;我受够了。

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

如果一个人没有机会为自己的观点而战,那么这些观点就无法生存。