For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

  • -- David R. Brower 大卫·R·布罗尔

在太阳变冷之前,你认为还有多少人能站在这个星球上?这是我们手中的责任。

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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。

We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law.

当制定法律的人决定他们自己是否违法时,我们就遇到了一个问题。

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

品格——愿意为自己的生活承担责任——是自尊的源泉。

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

人们认为成为成年人意味着你的所有行为都有后果;事实上恰恰相反。

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

但我认为,也希望,这些小说可以被理解和欣赏为科幻小说,以它们自己的方式。

When you think you know everything, it means that you actually know nothing.

当你认为你什么都知道的时候,这意味着你实际上什么都不知道。