他认为,在我们成为公民之前,我们都是孩子,正是在孩子的时候我们才开始理解自由与权威、自由与义务。我已经尽了我的职责。我已经向权威低头了。大多。现在,就像俄罗斯一样,我可以暂时放下这些负担,看看会发生什么。
(Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.)