Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

和平需要最英勇的劳动和最艰难的牺牲。它需要比战争更伟大的英雄主义。它要求对真理有更大的忠诚和更纯洁的良心。

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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

如果由于地主的租金下降而使对住宅商品的需求减少,那么,由于商业阶级日益富裕,对住宅商品的需求就会大大增加。

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

一个人想要上升到神的平台,就需要纯净的言语、心灵、感官和慈悲的心。

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

我们不会在金钱的祭坛上抵押我们的良心,抵押我们的信仰,抵押我们的救恩。

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

最致命的错误莫过于把生命的大部分用来谋生的人。

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

我们要把好信息带回家给我们的人民,好让他们安睡。

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

我将不会处于由劳动支配管理的地位。

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

必须有邪恶,这样善才能证明它的纯洁高于邪恶。

The dome of the Pantheon over the vault of the Temple of Peace.

万神殿的圆顶,在和平神殿的拱顶之上。

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

篡改货币的人会抢走货币的面包。

The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.

最难跨越的山是门槛。

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

良心。那些东西会让你发疯。

It is difficult not to write satire.

不写讽刺作品是很难的。