Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

  • -- Howard Winters 霍华德·温特斯

文明是一个过程,在这个过程中,一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数,同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人,直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。

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Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

没有自信,我们就像摇篮里的婴儿。我们如何才能以最快的速度产生这种不可估量的、但又是无价的品质呢?认为别人不如自己。

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

再次代表欧洲文明传统统一的教皇制度,也表现出无法有效限制民族主义的推动。

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

历史告诉我们,其他高度发达的文明形式已经崩溃。谁知道同样的命运是否正等着我们呢?

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

需要和得到在短期内似乎不太可能匹配……需要做的是我来做。

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

二十年后我会做什么?我会死的,亲爱的!你疯了吗?

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

我相信任何社会底层的人们都有必要进行斗争。