A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
你一刻也不能容忍某些国家司空见惯的个人行为。你会把这样的人关起来。
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
战争是一种骗局。这是唯一一个在国际范围内。这是唯一一种利润以美元计算，而生命损失以美元计算的方法。
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
如果他一生中最激动人心的时刻是被刺刀弄瘸了腿，为什么他的母亲还要费心把他带到这个世界上呢?
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
战争的自然原则是:以最小的伤害自己，最大的伤害敌人;这当然要靠策略来实现。
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
战争不仅是一种政治行为，而且是一种真正的政治工具，是政治交往的继续，是通过其他方式进行的。
All over the world, people are asked to sacrifice in the effort to win a war, but they are never asked what they would sacrifice in order to end a war.
在世界各地，人们都被要求为赢得一场战争而做出牺牲，但从来没有人问过他们为了结束一场战争会做出什么牺牲。
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
年过七十就像打仗一样。我们所有的朋友都去了或走了，我们在死亡和垂死的人之间生存，就像在战场上一样。
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
一场美好的战争是这样的战争，每个英雄都是英雄，每个人或多或少都是美好战争中的英雄。这场战争一点也不美好。
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
就我个人而言，我认为我们在二战后的几年里所遵循的课程是开明的，具有惊人的想象力和极其有效的。
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
我不是在抗议战争的行为，而是在抗议牺牲战士的政治错误和不真诚。
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
我将无视所有关于战争机器的新著作的想法，因为战争机器的发明已经到了极限，我对它的改进已不抱任何希望。
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
我不相信文明会在一场有原子弹的战争中被消灭。也许地球上三分之二的人将被杀害。
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
当然，战争是可以避免的;但它们比某种和平要好得多。
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
历史上很少有个别历史能够在没有战争或革命的情况下走自己的路。
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
当一名战士在一场不可避免地会导致他死亡的攻击下，选择先结束自己的生命，这并不被认为是疯狂的。事实上，这种行为已经被鼓励了几个世纪，甚至现在也被认为是做这种行为的一个光荣的理由。当你受到自己思想的攻击时，又有什么不同呢?
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
战争就是战争。唯一的好人是一个死人。
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。