起初𪜶掠共產黨員時,我無講出來,因為我毋是共產黨員。
當𪜶掠社會主義者時,我無講出來,因為我毋是社會主義者。
當𪜶掠工會會員時,我無講出來,因為我毋是工會會員。
當𪜶掠猶太人時,我無講出來,因為我毋是猶太人。
等𪜶掠我的時,無人留下,為我放聲。
—— 馬丁・尼毛拉(馬丁・尼莫拉)
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent; I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
By Martin Niemöller
毋願參與政治的人,終其尾會予閣較䆀的人統治。
—— 保拉圖(柏拉圖)
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
By Plato
雖然我行較慢,但我毋捌退後。
—— 亞武拉甘・仁康(亞伯拉罕・林肯)
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
By Abraham Lincoln
愛彰顯一个人人格上有效的方法,
毋是予伊身處逆境,而是送予伊權力。
—— 亞武拉甘・仁康(亞伯拉罕・林肯)
The surest way to reveal one’s character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
By Abraham Lincoln
有限的失望咱定著愛接受,
毋過千萬毋通失去無窮的希望。
—— 馬丁・律多・景(馬丁・路德・金恩)
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
對大事恬恬的彼一工,咱的生活就愛準備收煞矣。
—— 馬丁・律多・景(馬丁・路德・金恩)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
社會轉型時歷史將會記錄,上大的悲哀毋是歹人的囂俳,是好人驚人的恬靜。
—— 馬丁・律多・景(馬丁・路德・金恩)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
永遠莫憢疑一寡仔通盤考慮、規心奉獻的公民會當改變世界,因為這是唯一捌做到的代誌。
—— 瑪芽熱・彌多(瑪格麗特・米德)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
By Margaret Mead
「是按怎?我想,這是我的職責。」
—— 1989年前往天安門廣場的青年
“Why? I think, this is my duty.”
By youth heading to Tiananmen Square in 1989
若是我看甲共別人比起來較遠,
是因為我徛佇巨人的肩胛頂。
—— 愛薩嚳・梁頓(艾薩克・牛頓)
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
By Isaac Newton
我會按算天體的運行軌跡,卻歹估算眾人的痟狂。
—— 愛薩嚳・梁頓(艾薩克・牛頓)
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
By Isaac Newton
共所有無可能攏排除了後,
賰的毋管有偌無可能,絕對是真相。
—— 亞梭・柯蘭・道爾(亞瑟・柯南・道爾)
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
By Arthur Conan Doyle
地獄空空,眾惡鬼攏佇遮。
—— 威廉・釋士比亞(威廉・莎士比亞)
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
By William Shakespeare
我思故我在。我思考,所以我存在。
—— 魯尼・知卡律(勒內・笛卡爾)
I think, therefore I am.
By René Descartes
我袂癮予別人定義我是誰,
這款代誌愛我家己來決定。
—— 愛瑪・法宋(艾瑪・華森)
I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
By Emma Watson
熟似家己即智慧之源。
—— 亞里斯多德
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
By Aristotle
知影家己的無知是真正的智慧。
—— 朔拉哲(蘇格拉底)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
By Socrates
干焦光會驅逐烏暗無路驅除的影;
唯有愛會消滅冤仇無路消除的猌。
—— 馬丁・律多・景(馬丁・路德・金恩)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
轉去昨昏無效,因為彼時的我毋是我。
—— 裕易斯・卡羅爾(路易斯・卡羅)
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
By Lewis Carroll
將創傷變做智慧。
—— 奧波拉・艾爾・溫芙麗(歐普拉・蓋爾・溫芙蕾)
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
By Oprah Gail Winfrey
向望親像鳥仔歇佇神魂內,唱著無字的歌,永遠無煞。
—— 愛彌莉・伊莉莎麥・德堇松(埃米莉・伊莉莎白・狄更生)
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
心靈是伊自身的所在,
會共地獄變成天堂,嘛會將天堂變做地獄。
—— 約翰・密頓(約翰・米爾頓)
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
By John Milton
幻想袂閃避現實,顛倒是理解現實的路。
—— 羅逸・亞歷山大(洛伊・亞歷山大)
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
By Lloyd Alexander
冤冤相報何時了,毋過會予𪜶一个好藉口。
—— 涂瑪斯・史蒂芬・薩斯(湯瑪士・史蒂芬・薩斯)
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
By Thomas Stephen Szasz
一个人就是一个人,無論伊偌細漢。
—— 締奧度・梭斯・毅燮(希奧多・蘇斯・蓋索)
A person's a person, no matter how small.
By Theodor Seuss Geisel
佇戰爭佮恥辱頭前選擇恥辱者,
受盡恥辱了後猶原愛面對戰爭。
—— 溫斯頓・秋志爾(溫斯頓・邱吉爾)
Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.
By Winston Churchill
就煞民主上䆀, 嘛較贏往過試了一擺擺的其他政體。
—— 溫斯頓・秋志爾(溫斯頓・邱吉爾)
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
By Winston Churchill
經驗佮歷史教阮的是:
人類從歷史學著上重要的教示,
就是人類無法度從歷史內記取任何教示。
—— 夏毅爾(黑格爾)
What experience and history teach is this:
that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
By G. W. F. Hegel
神聖羅馬帝國毋但無神聖,嘛毋是羅馬,閣無算帝國。
—— 茂爾泰(伏爾泰)
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
By Voltaire
人若袂記得往過註定會重蹈覆轍。
—— 若柔・珊塔野那(喬治・桑塔亞那)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
By George Santayana
昨昏是歷史,明仔載猶未知,
今仔日是天賜的珍寶,
莫怪「今」號做「金」。
—— 密・基恩(比爾・基恩)
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
By Bil Keane
起頭𪜶共你忽略;
閣來𪜶共你訕笑;
紲落來𪜶共你創治、共你火燒;
最後𪜶會為你起紀念碑。
—— 尼古剌・戈來因(尼古拉・克萊因)
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
By Nicholas Klein
我毋贊同你的見解,毋過我誓死捍衛你講話的權利。
—— 伊美玲・美亞多里斯・夏爾(伊夫林・比阿特麗斯・霍爾)
I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
By Evelyn Beatrice Hall
人生來自由,卻時時刻刻牢咧鎖枷內。
—— 乍・埃戈・魯穌(讓・雅各・盧梭)
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
無自由,吾寧死!予我自由,抑予我死!
—— 巴翠戈・亨利(派翠克・亨利)
Give me liberty, or give me death!
By Patrick Henry
自由毋是想欲創啥就創啥,是教恁無愛做啥就免做啥。
—— 伊馬努爾・菅多(伊曼努爾・康德)
Freedom is not letting you do whatever you wanna but teaching you not to do the things you don't wanna do.
By Immanuel Kant
干焦靠法律袂當保證言論自由;
為著予每个人攏會使表達家己的觀點免受脅迫,
定著愛眾人攏有寬容的心。
—— 亞爾布多・愛因斯坦(阿爾伯特・愛因斯坦)
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
By Albert Einstein
自由之樹愛定定沃烈士佮暴君的鮮血。
—— 涂瑪斯・熱豪遜(湯瑪斯・傑弗遜)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
By Thomas Jefferson
自由毋是阮生活內的討債物,是基礎、本質佮意義。
—— 彌西魯・阿夫陸(米歇爾・阿弗拉克)
Liberty is not a luxury in the life of the nation but its basis and its essence and its meaning.
By Michel Aflaq
真理猶咧穿鞋的時,白賊已經共半个世界行透透。
—— 馬戈・兌恩(馬克・吐溫)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
By Mark Twain
刣我袂死的物件予我堅強。
—— 富里多里希・威爾謙・尼切(弗里德里希・威廉・尼采)
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
莫煩惱做毋著代誌,你會瞭解啥物是失敗,
愛繼續努力爭取落去。
—— 萬熱明・富蘭克林(班傑明・富蘭克林)
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure.
Continue to reach out.
By Benjamin Franklin
除非你有勇氣到看無岸的彼頭,
若無你永遠無法度伐過海洋。
—— 柯里斯多侯・哥倫布(克里斯多福・哥倫布)
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
By Cristoforo Colombo
後悔過往,毋值奮鬥未來。
—— 卡爾・馬戈思(卡爾・馬克思)
We’d better struggle for the future rather than regret for the past.
By Karl Marx
過往的已經過去,上好的永遠袂來。
—— 魯絲・拉坎(露西・拉科姆)
Whatever happened in the past is gone, the best is always yet to come.
By Lucy Larcom
若有眠夢,就愛保護伊;若欲啥物,就愛努力逐。
—— 威爾・史彌斯(威爾・史密斯)
You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
If you want something, go get it.
By Will Smith
風向可能無法度控制,毋過帆會使撨摵。
—— 多莉・麗默卡・巴頓(桃莉・蕾貝卡・巴頓)
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
By Dolly Rebecca Parton
生活愛家己過才顯得有意義。
—— 栗・萊歐旦(雷克・萊爾頓)
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
By Rick Riordan
咱逐工做啥就會變做啥款的人。
故出眾毋但是一个舉動,閣較是一種習慣。
—— 亞里斯多德
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
By Aristotle
啥物攏試看覓的膽漢無做袂到的代誌。
—— 亞歷山大大王(亞歷山大大帝)
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
By Alexander the Great
成功未煞,失敗袂死:繼續行的勇氣較重要。
—— 溫斯頓・秋志爾(溫斯頓・邱吉爾)
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
By Winston Churchill
無啥物唔可能,這个詞家己就咧講「吾可能」!
—— 歐黛麗・翕本(奧黛麗・赫本)
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I'm possible”!
By Audrey Hepburn
未來屬於相信眠夢之美的人。
—— 安娜・愛蓮娜・盧斯麥(安娜・愛蓮娜・羅斯福)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
By Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
若欲煩惱無法度控制的代誌,
毋值用氣血來創造新的物件。
—— 羅伊・T・曼尼多(羅伊・T・班尼特)
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
By Roy T. Bennett
莫浪費時間佇憤怒、後悔、煩惱佮怨嘆。
人生短短,毋值無快活。
—— 羅伊・T・曼尼多(羅伊・T・班尼特)
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
By Roy T. Bennett
莫予心內的驚惶捒來捒去,
應允心中的眠夢共阮𤆬路。
—— 羅伊・T・曼尼多(羅伊・T・班尼特)
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
By Roy T. Bennett
力量毋管體能,是對拍死袂退的意志來的。
—— 摩翰達・伽南贊・彥智(莫罕達斯・卡拉姆昌德・甘地)
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
By Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
拄著無佮意的代誌時,你應該去改變伊。若講無法度改變伊,就改變對伊的想法,毋通規工哼哼叫。
—— 馬野・安毅露(馬雅・安傑洛)
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
By Maya Angelou
揣著真心的朋友是福氣,久長的保有伊是好字運。
—— 峇爾塔沙・俄拉施安(巴爾塔沙・葛拉西安)
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
By Baltasar Gracián
世上上媠的物件,看無嘛摸無著,愛用心去感受。
—— 夏倫・亞澹斯・稽拉(海倫・亞當斯・凱勒)
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, but must be felt by the heart.
By Helen Adams Keller
歸尾咱干焦記得朋友的激恬,毋是對敵講的話。
—— 馬丁・律多・景(馬丁・路德・金恩)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.