The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

为了观点而压迫任何一个人,除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外,很少有其他效果。

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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。

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

那些开始强制消除异见者的人很快就会发现自己在消灭异见者。强制的意见统一只能达到墓地的一致。

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事,特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

未来的浪潮不是用一种教条主义征服世界,而是解放自由国家和自由人民的各种力量。

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

一个人必须知道如何面对意见;一个屈服于它的女人。

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

在一个完全清醒的世界里,疯狂是唯一的自由!

I'm rarely singing in English.

我很少用英语唱歌。