政治语言……是为了让谎言听起来真实，让谋杀显得可敬，给纯粹的空气以坚固的外表。

We must act now, because the ocean’s decline is a crisis we cannot ignore.

We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.

The statesman， who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals， would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted， not only to no single person， but to no council or senate whatever， and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.