宽容是自由社会的生命要素和标志,永远不会是当权者的恩赐;在多数人暴政的普遍条件下,它只能通过激进少数派的持续努力赢得。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.