A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文明
Civilisation
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
文明要名副其实，就必须提供解决人类分歧的其他方法，而不是放血的方法。
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
一个从历史一开始就是文明的指导和创造力量的阶级的代表遭到大规模的破坏，从而开始了一个几乎是机械的进程。
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
仅仅携带一把尺子在口袋里就应该被禁止，至少在道德上是这样的。统治者是新文盲的象征。统治者是一种新疾病的症状，我们的文明正在瓦解。
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
世界不会进入同心协力的权力集团。实际上，它正在进入权力扩散阶段，拥有比人类文明中任何时候都多的决策中心。这就要求你把自己置于比以往任何时候都多的权力中心。
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
文明已经被摧毁了很多次，这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年，生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切，但地质时间是不同的。