即使在英語世界，也有矛盾的智慧：有說「沉默是金」（Silence is gold），但美國演員兼編劇家費恩斯坦說：「不要被欺侮而沉默，不要讓自己成為犧牲品，不要讓別人度身訂造你的生命，不要讓別人來定義你自己。」（Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.） Continue reading 陶傑 – 沉默就是懦弱→
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.
這位美國小說家不止這部名著。對於人性，巴克不僅看到光明，還洞悉黑暗，他還有一句名言：「良心是什麼？良心就是在自私之中量度誠實」（Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness）。 Continue reading 陶傑 – 天地一沙鷗→
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Eureka! 