Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

人类的历史始于人类的反抗行为,而这正是人类自由和理性发展的开端。

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

对不同时期所作的陈述进行比较,常常使我们能够对文化因素的出现给出最大和最小的日期,或为人口的流动确定时间限制。

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

妈妈过去常常把情书藏起来不让我的男朋友看到,还把我放下来。现在我明白了,她是被迫在芝加哥定居的波兰移民。她嫉妒生活给我的自由。

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

不服从是美德中最罕见、最勇敢的一种,很少与忽视、最懒惰和最常见的恶习区分开来。

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

说人类之间还没有做过一件事,这就等于竖起了一道比理性更强大、比讨论更强大的屏障。

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

我从来没有试图掩盖发生的事情。我服了刑,我努力学习,继续前进。

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

艺术给了我创作音乐时所没有的自由。

Love's reason's without reason.

爱情是没有理由的。