A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is Insubordination.
卒强吏弱，曰弛。
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
战争是残酷的。试图改革它是没有用的。它越残酷，就会越快结束。
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
有一件事是肯定的，在自由与恐惧之间的战争中，我们这边会有更好的t恤。
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
战争是白痴。我们生活在一个很小很小的星球上，我们对别人做什么，就等于对自己做什么。
War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.
战争……是丑陋和野蛮的，而高贵之处在于这样做不会变得丑陋和野蛮。
Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.
疾战则存，不疾战则亡者，为死地。
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
我们正在经历一种古老、野蛮的战争舞蹈——这几乎是荒谬至极的。
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
没有时间了:就像许多战时的表达一样，这个表达也有了充分的意义。
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。
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
爱情和战争是一回事，策略和政策在其中一样是可以容许的。
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?"
和平比战争更可取。但它不是一个绝对值，所以我们总是问，“什么样的和平?”
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
为善行善的，不求乐园，也不求赏赐，但终久必得着。
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War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
战争造就了奇异的盟友，而和平本身就可能分裂。
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“在这样一个冲突的世界，一个受害者和刽子手的世界，有思想的人的工作，不是站在刽子手一边。”
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
我们这一代人没有经历过大战，没有经历过大萧条。我们的战争是精神上的。我们的抑郁就是我们的生活。
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
当大国之间的所有条约与生存斗争发生冲突时，它们就不再具有约束力。
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
我不相信战争是最好的解决办法。没有人赢得最后一场战争，也没有人会赢得下一场战争。