Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。

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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

人们很难相信这样一个简单的事实:每个迫害者都曾经是受害者。然而,应该非常明显的是,一个从小就被允许感到自由和强大的人,没有必要去羞辱另一个人。

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

我发誓,无论何时何地,只要有人忍受痛苦和羞辱,我绝不保持沉默。我们必须始终站在任何一方。中立帮助压迫者,而不是受害者。沉默鼓励受折磨的人,而不是受折磨的人。

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

我认为我们这一代人创造的最美妙的事情之一就是我们可以说,‘嘿,我不喜欢白人。’

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

童话是跨越每一代人的故事,它们已经存在很长时间了。