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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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

战争荒谬而可怕的地方在于,那些没有个人恩怨的人应该被训练成冷血地自相残杀。

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

我宁愿要最不公平的和平,也不愿要最正义的战争。