A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.

  • -- Amin Maalouf 马卢夫

一个社区一旦同意抛弃其最弱小的成员,它就开始分崩离析。

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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

半个世纪以前,情况完全不同。在经济上,我们实际上是跪着的,在政治上,我们仍然被排除在国际社会之外。今天,在这方面,我们有一个完全不同和稳定得多的基础。

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

当一个社会仅仅因为大多数人无法实现自己的理想而放弃自己的理想时,行为确实会变得非常丑陋。

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

我的都柏林不再是唱歌、传统音乐、历史感、地域感和社区感的都柏林。

That which is deferred is not abandoned.

被推迟的事不会被放弃。