No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

  • -- Dean Acheson 迪安·艾奇逊

历史上没有任何一个认为自己可以通过不冒犯敌人来保护自由的人幸存下来。

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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

我们已经进入了这样一个时代:教育不仅仅是一种奢侈品,它使一些人比其他人更有优势。在这个复杂的工业化社会里,没有它,一个人就没有了防御能力。我们真正进入了一个有知识的人的世纪。

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

我认为这一切的背后有一种至高无上的力量,一种智慧。看看自然界所有的本能,包括动物和植物,它们生存的独特方式。如果你割伤了自己,你就不用想了。

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

啊,想想那隔在地狱和天堂之间的薄纱有多薄。

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

作为人类的俘虏,这个世界将活不了多久。

The problem with finding paradise is that others might find it, too.

寻找天堂的问题在于,其他人可能也会找到它。

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

我永远不会给自己“我成功了”这种奢侈的想法。