无畏不是没有恐惧。不是完全不害怕。无畏是有恐惧。无畏是有怀疑。很多怀疑。无畏是尽管有这些,依然每天生活。
Fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. Fearless is living in spite of those things, every day.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
"The future is a dark void, and we are all just stumbling towards it blindly."
讲到革命的用青天白日旗,是由乙未年创用,迨后革命军占领镇南关再用,就由法国报纸传扬,故世界亦知此为有历史价值之旗帜。及至武昌革命成功以后,何以反为不用他呢?这是有个缘故。第一就是这面旗很有美术的构造,他的长短尺寸都有一定的比例,就是星的光芒,亦有一定的角度,比较五样颜色的布拼成的,自然难做。而革命要人,多忙不暇理及此事。刚值寄寓上海租界一班老官僚,利用人民弱点,就乘势侵进革命党内,就将国旗改为五色,并且唱革命军起革命党销之疯说。当时一般老革命同志,都莫名其妙,皆以为官僚都来赞成革命,只有海吸百川,兼收并蓄,不知彼等改五色旗为国旗系有绝大深意。当满清未推倒以前,文武官员,多是深居简出,陆行固少,坐船更稀,所以每有外出,便有许多仪仗鸣金击鼓升炮奏乐等事。遇着坐船的时候,如武官官阶至提督的,文官官阶到巡抚的,他船桅上,便悬一面五色旗,以示隆重。由此说来,五色旗便是满洲官制的文武官员一品的官旗。民国十三年来沿用不改。无怪这十三年内,民国政治,都由武人官僚把持,真可痛心了。当他们改用五色时,我一个月后,才到上海,当时我就提议将旗改换,多数同志,以为此不过一种标志小事,现在大事尚多,故我亦不坚持到底。所以此十三年来,我们实常依于官僚武人旗帜之下,岂不伤心?
——〈体认革命历史再开新纪元〉,1924年9-10月
The land is our greatest teacher; we must listen to it and learn from it.
资本是死劳动,像吸血鬼一样,只有吮吸活劳动才有生命,吮吸的活劳动越多,它的生命就越旺盛。
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.