Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

  • -- George Gilder 基尔德

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

然而,总的来说,我所走过的这片土地不太可能成为文明人常去的地方,或者只会成为一个孤立的地方,作为与一个更富饶的国家连接的纽带;如果这样一个国家存在于西部。

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

死亡不会影响生者,因为它还没有发生。死亡与死者无关,因为他们已不复存在。

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

我知道人是会变的。我以为……我以为我们会一起改变。我以为这就是爱的意义。

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

我总是试图超越人们期望我达到的目标。

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

酒从一开始就与文明人同在。

No medicines can cure the vulgar man.

没有药物能治愈这个粗俗的人。