What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

一个国家所谓的重要经济利益,不是使其公民能够生存的东西,而是使其能够发动战争的东西。汽油比小麦更有可能成为国际冲突的原因。

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Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

和平不是没有战争;这是一种美德;精神状态;仁慈的性格;信心;和正义。

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

赢得核战争的方法是确保它永远不会开始。