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暴力
Violence
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
从历史上看,最可怕的事情——战争、种族灭绝和奴隶制——不是源于不服从,而是源于服从。
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
战争的艺术很简单。找出你的敌人在哪里。尽快找到他。尽你所能地打击他,然后继续前进。
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
在我所在的地区,预算缩减了,取消了几个对长岛安全和经济安全很重要的长期海岸保护项目。
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
如果我死得很惨,就像有些人害怕的那样,也有一些人在密谋,我知道凶手的思想和行动中会有暴行,而不是我的死亡。
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
复仇……就像一块滚动的石头,当一个人被迫上山时,它会以更大的力量返回到他身上,并折断那些肌肉使它运动的骨头。
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds....
伟大的精神总是遭到平庸之辈的强烈反对。
I am willing to accept that there might be rare circumstances where applications of force might be effective,
我愿意接受,在一些罕见的情况下,使用武力可能是有效的,
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
异化,因为我们目前的命运只能通过人类对人类犯下的残暴暴行来实现。
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
人必须征服自己,必须对自己施暴,才能做出丝毫不沾染邪恶的行为。
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
我们不会通过杀害彼此的孩子来学会如何和平共处。
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
以暴制暴。如果今天我们中的一个跌倒了,明天必定有五个。