Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  • -- Iris Murdoch 默多克

人的事情并不严重,但必须认真对待。

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If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

如果你真的想从更大的方面展示权力,你需要展示对无权者的影响,无论是好是坏——公共工程的人力成本。这就是我想做的,不仅展示权力是如何运作的,也展示它对人们的影响。

I think I'd make a great superhero. I'm serious. I want to play a superhero, and I've already got one in mind. I think I've still got the body for the costume, and it's something I really want to do.

我想我会成为一个伟大的超级英雄。我是认真的。我想扮演一个超级英雄,我已经有一个想法了。我想我的身体还可以穿戏服,这是我真正想做的事情。

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

人类历史上的每一次重大危机都是塞莫皮莱的一个关口,如果列奥尼达和他的三百人不能征服,他们就会死在那里。

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

我决心停止积累,开始一项艰巨得多的任务,那就是明智分配。