War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

  • -- Smedley Butler 巴特勒

战争是一种骗局。这是唯一一个在国际范围内。这是唯一一种利润以美元计算,而生命损失以美元计算的方法。

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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

幸运的是,随着战争而来的不仅是对另一场战争对世界将意味着什么的明确认识,而且还建立了一个国际机构,如果世界各国希望通过该机构使和平成为现实。

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

如果我们为战争辩护,那是因为各国人民总是为他们发现自己具有的特点辩护,而不是因为战争将客观地审查其优点。

War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition and our history, the place we had to live in.

战争是一种恶性疾病,一种白痴,一种监狱,一种痛苦 原因是说不清道不明的;但战争是我们的条件 还有我们的历史,我们必须生活的地方。

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

我们没有具有国际地位的阿拉伯知识分子,因为我们生活在一个普遍平庸的国家。我们被吊在坑里,没有碰到底部。