(I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.)
“你想利人,就告訴他真相。你想利己,就告訴他他想聽的。” (When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.)“在一群偽君子中,一個誠實人會引起何等大的恐慌,這真是奇妙。” (It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. )“有人以自己的‘複雜’為傲,嘲笑他人‘簡單’。他們應該認識到,真理往往不複雜,編織謊言才複雜。”(People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic"should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complexis evading the truth.)“過去三十年的西方社會史,多是以悅耳的取代管用的。” (Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.)“張力(Johnny)的問題不是不讀書,也不是不思考。問題是他不知道思考為何物,他把感覺當成了思考。”(The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.)“知識精英常犯的大錯是,他們不記得‘他們不是上帝’。”(Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.)長期以來,種族主義的檔案上從無戰績。他們屢戰屢敗,但從不放棄,現在他們重新招兵買馬換司令。 (Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management. )“很奇怪,那些認為我們無力支付醫生、醫院、和藥物費用的人,卻認為在它們上面再加一個政府管理機構,我們就能支付醫生,醫院,藥物和那個機構的費用了。”(It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.)“儘管關於‘收入分配’的文獻汗牛充棟、熱情洋溢,但冷酷的事實是:收入本身不是分配產生的,而是勤勞賺來的。” (Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.)“Socialism紙上談兵很精彩,一實行就是災難。看看世界上各種族、各膚色、各信仰的人群,所有嘗試過socialism的,哪個不是從過去的糧食過剩走向飢餓貧窮……。” (Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... )“Socialism已經向全世界昭示了它長長的失敗記錄,只有知識分子才視而不見。”(Socialismin general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.)“說出完整真相的方式只有兩種:匿名或不要命。”
(There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.)
“什麼是‘最好的’並不重要,關鍵是,這個‘最好的’由誰決定。”(The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.)“當人們習慣被特殊優待後,平等對待反成了歧視。”
(When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.)