Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  • -- Ulysses S. Grant 格兰特

国家和个人一样,都要为他们的罪行受到惩罚。

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

对全体民众来说,变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事,低声诉说隐藏的渴望,揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查,以免受到国家的惩罚。

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

我们听说过国富论、生产能力论、市场供求论,却忘记了这些词不再有任何意义,如果它们有任何意义的话,那么人类的幸福、劳动和必需品也就不再有任何意义了。

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

什么诗不能拯救民族和人民?

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

人所犯的罪,正与他的罪相称。