To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

要处理战争的真正原因,我们必须首先认识到一个众所周知的事实,即文明是对野蛮主义的片面、不完整和在很大程度上是表面的修改,这是与解决问题的首要关系。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

我们在这个国家所发现的,也许我们现在更加意识到的,是我们曾经遇到的一个问题,即使是在最好的时候,那就是那些睡在栅栏上的人,你可能会说,无家可归的人,是我们自己选择的。

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

只要艺术是文明的美容院,艺术和文明都不是安全的。

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

人类文明始于第一次一个愤怒的人用一个词来代替石头。

I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.

我希望在我们离开之前能解决这些问题。

Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

啤酒是所有生活问题的起因和解决之道。