Experts say a good rule to remember is not to post anything you would not want your mother to see.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you don't like the no branching rule, it's not clear what your alternatives are.

如果你不接受无分支理论，你的选择就不明确。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We agree to be junior partners in absolute rule in exchange for recognizing your supreme authority over us in exchange for the protection that you will afford us."

我们愿意臣服在您的绝对权威之下,我们将视您为无上的权力,作为交换你必须向我们提供保护"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The problem with--what drove the personality theory into the no branching rule, implausible as it may be,was the fact that your personality is like software,and it can be copied.

看似不可能，但将人格理论，拖入无分支规则的问题就是,人格可被拷贝这个事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.

我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选