Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

  • -- Mikhail Bakunin 巴枯宁

强大的国家只能靠犯罪来维持自己,弱小的国家只有靠软弱才有美德。

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

只有有道德的人才能获得自由。随着国家变得腐败和邪恶,他们更需要主人。

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

你没有注意到,在那些性格可以说是最软弱的人身上,信仰通常是最坚强的吗?

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

一个国家的强大最终证明是它的弱点。

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

所有的艺术都是一种挣扎,以一种特殊的方式,成为有道德的人。