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战争
War
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world.
和平永远不会像战争那样令人信服。也许这就是为什么世界上的黄金如此之少。
Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
了解敌人使你能进攻,了解自己使你能防守。
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。
War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.
战争把人变成动物,我们不能让这种事发生在我们身上。如果我们这样做,我们将没有任何生存的机会。
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,
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
在婚姻和战争中,你必须把别人说的话像蛋糕一样切开,只吃你能吃的东西。
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
我们早已掌握了战争的艺术和战争的科学,这些都是在最细微的细节中发展起来的。
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
在战争中,你必须恨某个人或爱某个人;你必须有一个职位,否则你无法忍受所发生的一切。
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
这就是人类的处境,希望自己的国家伟大,就是希望自己的邻居受到伤害。
If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.
如果我们知道如何找到迷失的人,我们就会知道如何重新发现我们在战斗中遗留下来的思想。
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
真正的战士战斗,不是因为他恨眼前的东西,而是因为他爱身后的东西。
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
如果要打一场战争,我们不把成本作为决定是否参战的因素之一。
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
故胜兵先胜而后求战,败兵先战而后求胜。
All are at war with the one who wars against self.
所有人都在与与自己作战的人交战。
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
战争来临时,第一个牺牲者是真理。
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
当富人发动战争时,死去的是穷人。
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
组织、鼓动、教育,必须是我们的战争口号。