Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

无论什么东西,只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的,人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

无论我做什么或说什么,我都没有权利在一个人的眼里贬低他。重要的不是我对他的看法;这是他对自己的看法。破坏一个人的自尊是一种罪过。

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

在那个地区,人们认为……作为该地区最重要的权力机构,目前是美利坚合众国。

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

人是如此简单,如此倾向于服从眼前的需要,以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

是悲惨的。或激励自己。无论必须做什么,都是你的选择。

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

两个国家对同一地区行使权力是一种矛盾。

You can do whatever you want with my work.

你可以对我的工作为所欲为。