Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  • -- Richard Cobden 科布登

战争只是另一种贵族掠夺和压迫商业的方式。

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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族,这是一个努力的目标,就像一个崇高的哲学,一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

任何法律都不能废除真正的贵族制度:法律所能做的只是规定如何传授,以及由谁来获得。

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

当大国之间的所有条约与生存斗争发生冲突时,它们就不再具有约束力。

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

现在没有人是战前的他们了。没有人能把它找回来。