过去的艺术被神秘化,因为一个特权少数派正在努力发明一个历史,这个历史可以回顾性地证明统治阶级的角色。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
当你不清楚某个项目该如何定价时,不妨直接问他怎样才算公平?他们的回答通常就是他们觉得自己该有的价值。
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, at any time, and with utter recklessness.
除了诱惑,我什么都能抵抗。
没有思想的词是死的东西,而没有用词体现的思想仍然是影子。