Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

武力可以使人成为伪君子,但决不能使人改变信仰。

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

如果我们不能通过理性、通过影响、通过榜样、通过艰苦的努力和个人的牺牲来修补文明的坏地方,我们当然不能通过武力来做到这一点。

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

把经验转换成一组彼此之间有语法关系的单词的冲动是我生命中最基本的、持续的冲动。

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

每当我们谈到自己的时候,我们似乎是多么的伪君子啊!我们的话语听起来如此谦卑,而我们的心却如此骄傲。

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

力量可以征服,但爱会获得,最先宽恕的人会赢得桂冠。