To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

  • -- Claude Adrien Helvetius 克劳德·阿德里安·海尔维提乌斯

限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。

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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

如果所有的印刷商都下定决心不印刷任何东西,除非他们确信这样做不会冒犯任何人,那么印刷出来的东西就会很少。

I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.

我反对电子书。他们使真正的书籍过时,剥夺穷人和经济上受到挑战的自由。

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

我确实想到,好的文学作品的效果可能和酒精一样令人头晕目眩。

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

一本书一定是我们内心冰冷大海的斧子。

It is better to be a beggar than a fool.

宁为乞丐,不为愚人。

Prejudice is the reason of fools.

偏见是愚人的理智。