面对“鳄鱼”--名人旧语重温 (2)
杨逢时摘编翻译
March 2010
· There is no such thing as part freedom. --Nelson Mandela
有限的自由根本谈不上自由。
· Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.--Nelson Mandela
· 只有自由的人才能讨价还价，坐牢的人不可能有资格进入谈判。
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.--Mohandas Gandhi
· 所有的妥协均基于权衡得失。而在原则问题上则无权衡得失可言。在原则上的任何妥协都是投降，因为你将失去一切，什么也得不到。
· Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
命运的改变不可能随车轮的自行转动而到来，它必须来自坚持不懈的斗争。我们必须挺起腰杆为自由而战。只要我们不折腰，就没人能骑在我们的背上。
· Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
千万别忘了，希特勒在德国所作的一切都是合法的。
· Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.--Albert Einstein
对政府与法律最具破坏力的，莫过于(政府)通过法律却不予执行。
· The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed. --Thomas Jefferson
受压迫者应该反抗，他们要持续反抗掀起(抗争)浪潮，直到消除所有歧视排挤，全部夺回他们应有的民权及被剥夺的一切能力。
· Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.--Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894, was an American theologian.)
妥协者如期望以牺牲“好的”或“对的”来保住其中之一的话，那么他们往往以二者全部失去而告终。
· It is the weak man who urges compromise, never the strong man.--Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.)
从来不是强者，乃是弱者才急于妥协。
· Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.--Andrew Carnegie (1835─1919, was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.)
妥协是弱者的标签，是失败者的入口。强者不用妥协。常言道，在原则上从不应该妥协。
· The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.--Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, 1905-1982, was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.)
邪恶在道德真空的世界里总能得逞，因为道德败坏者拒不承认这样一个事实：在原则问题上无妥协可谈。
· In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.--Ayn Rand
美食与毒药谈妥协，只有死神是胜者。善良与邪恶谈妥协，受益者只会是邪恶。这就像用善者的血浆喂饱了恶者，妥协者充当的是输血管的角色。
面对“鳄鱼”--名人旧语重温 (1)
杨逢时摘编翻译
Feb. 2010
· I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. --Thomas Jefferson, inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial
我向上帝发誓，以人类的精神力量永远敌对任何形式的极权统治。(镌刻于杰弗逊的纪念碑上)
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· Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.--Thomas Jefferson
· 对极权的抵抗就是对上帝的顺服。
· Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag.--Albert Einstein
无论是在法西斯还是在共产主义的旗帜下集结，任何以恐怖暴力奴役个人的权力都是人类的敌人。
· What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy of mankind.--William Shakespeare
反抗恶魔。视它为人类的敌人。
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· Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.--Ronald Reagan
集权总是自由的敌人。
· You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.--Winston Churchill
你有敌人？很好。这说明你在生命中的某一时刻坚持了某一理念。
· No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.--Dean Acheson (1893─1971, an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State during 1949-1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.)
历史上以为用温情讨好敌人就能保护自由的人，断无得以生存。
· No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.--Daisy Bates (1914 -- 1999, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957.)
没有任何人希望以自己的方式追求理想却没有敌人。
· Forgive your enemies, but first get even.--Lester Cole (1904-1985, an American screenwriter.)
首先取得公平，然后才谈得上原谅敌人。
· We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.--Francis Bacon (1909 -1992, an Irish born figurative painter of English descent.)
我们知道应原谅我们的敌人，但却不懂得要原谅我们的朋友。
· The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.--William Ralph Inge (1860 -1954, an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.)
自由的敌人从不和你多费口舌；他们吼叫著向你开枪。
· As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.--Thomas Jefferson
我们的敌人发现我们能像个人一样地推理，现在让我们告诉他们，我们还能像个人一样地战斗。
· The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.--Hugo Black (1886 - 1971, an American politician and jurist).
宪法的制定者们清楚言论自由是革命与变革的朋友，同时也是专制的死敌。
· There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.--Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755, a French social commentator and political thinker.)
最为黑暗残酷的极权就是在法律外壳与正义名义下的长治久安。
· Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.--William E. Borah (1865 -1940, was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho.)
如果没有新闻与言论自由，任何在表面形式上的自由机构(制度)都是空假虚伪的，甚至是个纯粹的笑话。如果新闻不自由，如果言论不独立，不能无拘无束，如果思想在恐惧下被钳制，不管在什么样的政府下生活，你都只是个被管辖的对象而不是公民。
· Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.--Benjamin Franklin
任何社会如果想放弃一点自由而换取一点安全，必然会将二者都丧失贻尽。
· A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.--Edward Abbey (1927─1989, an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies.)
一个爱国者必须时刻准备捍卫自己的国家而对抗政府。
· In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.--George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903 -- 1950, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.)
在谎言遍地的时代，讲真话就是革命的行动。
· Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will --Frederick Douglass (1818-1895, was born into slavery and is one of the most prominent figures in African American and United States history.)
一个声称热爱自由却不屑鼓动唤醒民众的人，等于幻想收获却不愿耕种。他们盼望雨水却害怕雷电。他们向往海洋却畏惧风浪。这种斗争也许是精神上的，也许是肢体上的，也许二者兼备。但这必须是斗争。权力与力量来自于坚定的诉求，无论过去或将来这都绝无例外。
· An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.--Winston Churchill
和解者喂鳄鱼，祈望最后一个被吃掉。
以下两句中英文均摘自新约圣经：
· He who is not with me is against me.--Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23
不与我相合的，就是敌我的。
· Simply let your“Yes” be “Yes”, and your “No”,“No”; anything beyond this comes from the evil one --Matthew 5:37
你们的话，是，就说是；不是，就说不是；若再多说，就是从恶里出来的。
