People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  • -- Mikhail Bakunin 巴枯宁

人们去教堂的原因和去酒馆的原因是一样的:让自己麻木,忘记痛苦,想象自己,哪怕只有几分钟,自由而快乐。

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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

在我爷爷建他自己的教堂之前,我们去了邻近的城镇,那是一个白人社区。你知道,在北部,大部分是欧洲中部的人和印第安人,奇皮瓦印第安人。我们被欢迎去那个教堂,但是一旦我们进去,他们不知道该拿我们怎么办。

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

如果有技术进步而没有社会进步,人类的苦难几乎会自动增加。

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

这在城镇教堂中是非常重要的,而在乡村则完全没有必要。

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

艺术是人类灵魂中储存的蜂蜜,用痛苦和辛劳的翅膀收集而成。