We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

  • -- Samuel Hopkins Adams 塞谬尔·霍普金斯·亚当斯

我们生活在一个信仰和意识形态变化和冲突的时代。但是,人类同情的福音是普遍的、永恒的。

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

如果人类的生命可以用年数、几十年的意识形态和几百年的国家来衡量,那么衡量文明的单位,即各民族之间相互作用所产生的文明,将是一个千年。

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

我和一位母亲一起长大,她每次看到什么东西都会说,我要去查一下。我成为了那个人——我成为了参考书的作者。

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

然而,历史表明,如果物质力量能够击败某些意识形态,它就不能在不破坏整个地球稳定的情况下消灭一个文明。

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

如果没有这场碰撞,朋克可能只是一声冷笑、一个安全别针和一条绑腿裤。

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

当然,冲突的伟大之处在于,他们一直在寻找超越冲突的答案。

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

我有时认为,自由的代价与其说是永远的警惕,不如说是永远的肮脏。

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

没有任何抽象概念比永恒和平更接近于实现的乌托邦。

There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.

就我所知,没有普遍的出柜过程。

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

我不打算写回忆录。不会很长时间。

Is the human race a universal constructor?

人类是万能的建设者吗?