Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
一个人只有通过尽可能少说谎来尽可能少说谎,而不是通过尽可能少的机会来做到这一点。
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
I want my fans to know how much I appreciate them.