The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  • -- Irving Babbitt 白璧德

工业革命倾向于在任何地方产生大量的城市居民,他们似乎越来越忽视道德标准。

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We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

当我们做了一些值得骄傲的事情,当我们达到了自己的标准,我们应该为我们的国家感到骄傲。但真正自豪的另一面是,我们能够意识到自己什么时候做不到,并对自己负责。

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

如果我们要有这样的纪律,我们就必须有标准,而要在现有条件下达到我们的标准,我们就必须有批评。

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

革命之后不可避免地会出现官僚主义。无论谁赢得了这场革命,都会建立起一个官僚机构。

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

历史是唯一真正的老师,革命是无产阶级最好的学校。

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

我讨厌马虎的奉承话,那种使你费尽心思去相信的奉承话。

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

粗心的牧羊人为狼做了美味的晚餐。