If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

如果我们仅仅因为野兽不能阻止我们,因为我们在为生存而斗争中支持自己的一方,那么出于同样的原因而把蠢货、罪犯、敌人或资本家斩了,也就合乎逻辑了。

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

我们既看见领航员驾驶我们所驾驶的航船,即使在沉船的时候,他也不让我们灭亡,我们的心就没有理由被恐惧所压倒,被疲惫所压倒。

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

我们每个人都有一个内心的梦想,只要我们有勇气承认它是什么,我们就能实现它。相信我们自己的信仰。承认往往是非常困难的。

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

小报就像动物,有自己的行为模式。抱怨它们没有任何意义,就像抱怨狮子会吃掉你一样。

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

当猪咕噜咕噜叫时,你给它钱;当孩子哭时,你给他钱,你就会有一头好猪和一个坏孩子。

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

我最难吸引的女性注意力来自我两岁的女儿。

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

人与权力的斗争就是记忆与遗忘的斗争。

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

战争教会我们不要爱我们的敌人,而要恨我们的盟友。

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

傲慢不是逻辑;绰号是恶意的论据。

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

敌人通常说他想说的,相信他想要的。

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

能力永远赶不上对它的需求。

Integrity has no need of rules.

正直不需要规则。