The discontented man finds no easy chair.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

那个不满的人找不到安乐椅。

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

我做我所做的,写我所写的,没有计算什么是值得什么,等等。幸运的是,我既不是银行家也不是会计。我觉得有一段时间需要发表一份政治声明,而我做到了。

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质,既能平息不满,又能保持特权,这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

因此,电影是社会的一部分,离它并不遥远,对于任何阶层的人来说都很容易体验。

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

为什么要去别的地方重新开始呢?

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

不满足是进步的第一需要。