Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

进步主义修辞学将社会危机和道德崩溃表现为新秩序的诞生之痛,从而起到了隐藏这些危机和道德崩溃的作用。

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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

我不禁担心,人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险,把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦,把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步,而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

人类的危机总是一场理解的危机:我们真正理解的是我们能做什么。

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

环境危机是全球性问题,只有全球行动才能解决。

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

作为人类,我们的生活中有一种社会需要和谐。