A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。

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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。

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

听着,我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱,特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

我学会了更多的放松。每个人在他们所做的事情中都会感到压力,也许我的只是有点不同,因为每天似乎没有足够的时间来完成我想做的事情。

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

小说写作、阅读和购书,一直都是一小部分人的活动,即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

在某种程度上,我觉得很高兴知道你的一部电影票房很好,也得到了好评。这感觉很成功。

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

我不会离开推特。如果没有头脑的少数人打败了有思想的大多数人,我们都将难逃厄运。