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家园 请教胡一把,我们要到什么时候才有资格呢?

先检讨检讨自己做了什么,为这个社会做了什么,然后在看看自己有没有资格出来说这种批评全社会人的话。

这种话在国内被频繁使用。

它来源于肯尼迪那句有名的“不要问国家为你做了些什么,而要问你为国家做了些什么。”

弗里德曼是这样评价这句话的:

  In 1962, Mr. Friedman took on President John F. Kennedy‘s popular inaugural exhortation:“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”In an introduction to his classic book“Capitalism and Freedom,”a collection of his writings and lectures, he said President Kennedy had got it wrong: You should ask neither.

  “What your country can do for you,”Mr. Friedman said, implies that the government is the patron, the citizen the ward; and“what you can do for your country”assumes that the government is the master, the citizen the servant. Rather, he said, you should ask,“What I and my compatriots can do through government to help discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all protect our freedom.”

弗里德曼是诺奖获得者,不知道他有没有资格啊?

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