It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Les passions sont comme les maladies: plus on les combat, plus elles se renforcent.

写作的行为是一种抵抗的行为。

The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language.