When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  • -- Ben Shahn 本·沙恩

当你谈论向贫困宣战时,它并没有多大意义;但是,如果你能在某种程度上展示出这类东西,那么你就能更多地展示出人们的生活方式,以及我们今天人口的很大一部分。

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

如果我们正遭受疾病、贫穷或不幸,我们认为在它停止的那一天我们就会得到满足。但在这一点上,我们也知道它是假的;一旦一个人习惯了不受苦,他就想要别的东西。

While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.

当你试图在地上讲和的时候,天上的居民还在争战。

For years now there had been no country here but the war.

多年来这里除了战争没有别的国家。

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

贫穷使你聪明,也使你悲伤。