As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

  • -- Richard Holbrooke 霍尔布鲁克

当国家与现代化作斗争时,落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

现代性是短暂的,稍纵即逝的,偶然的;它是艺术的一半,另一半是永恒的、不可改变的。

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

国家要么是母亲,要么是父亲,并产生了为父亲或母亲保留的情感刚毛。

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

但是他们无论如何都要发动战争,他们要威逼利导各国投票支持它。

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

现代社会已经用法律术语取代了道德规范,法律可以通过一个好的律师来驾驭。