The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
Tag Archives: Dictum
名言一百二十一
… because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. and it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular. I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done; that the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course ourselves.
Natalie Portman
Harvard Commencement Speech 2015
名言一百二十
You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get older we get more realistic, and that realism does us no favors.
Natalie Portman
Harvard Commencement Speech 2015
名言一百一十九
Preserve your sense of possibility, be naive.
Dan Kador
名言一百一十八
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black
名言一百一十七
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
名言一百一十六
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
名言一百一十五
我努力把話筒靠近槍口，就是為了在他扣動扳機時，能有更多的人聽到槍聲。
Vladimir Kazanevsky
名言一百一十四
I have never believed that man’s freedom consisted in doing what he wants to do, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do, and this is the freedom I have always craved and often enjoyed and because of which I have most scandalized my contemporaries.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
人的自由並不僅僅在於做他願意做的事，而在於永遠不做他不願意做的事。
盧梭
Reference: Quotations from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker
名言一百一十三
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton
權力使人腐化，絕對的權力使人絕對的腐化。偉人幾乎都是壞人。
阿克頓勳爵
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