We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

  • -- Desmond Tutu 德斯蒙德·图图

我们决不能让自己变成我们所反对的体制那样。

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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

如果我们只关心和平,就不可能有和平。战争不是偶然的。它是某种生活方式的逻辑结果。如果我们想攻击战争,我们就必须攻击那种生活方式。

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'

骄傲使人自欺。但在普通良知的深处,一个平静、微弱的声音对我们说:“有些东西不对劲。”

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

如果我死得很惨,就像有些人害怕的那样,也有一些人在密谋,我知道凶手的思想和行动中会有暴行,而不是我的死亡。

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.

如果你真的与众不同,那么让你与众不同的必然是让你感到孤独的东西。

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

我们不会通过杀害彼此的孩子来学会如何和平共处。

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

如果我们不给他们自尊,他们就不能剥夺我们的自尊。