Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

那些拥有绝对权力的人不仅可以预言并使他们的预言成真,而且他们还可以说谎并使他们的谎言成真。

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People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

人们希望我阴郁阴郁,然后写我是一个快乐的人,毕竟,这就是我。我认为这是一个绝对浪漫天真的例子,在作品和艺术家之间应该有一个平行。

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

我认为,在成年人之间的自愿关系(人们可能喜欢或不喜欢这种关系)和那些把自己的身体强加于孩子或滥用职权强加于孩子的人之间,存在着绝对的、深刻的鸿沟。

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

人不应该把自己的物质财富看作是自己的,而应该看作是所有人共有的,以便在别人需要的时候毫不犹豫地分享。

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

恰当地说,人是基于希望的,除了希望,他别无所有;他的这个世界充满了希望。