A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
包容
Inclusion
To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.
说“我们”和“我”是最深奥的侮辱之一。
I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.
我相信任何社会底层的人们都有必要进行斗争。
Create inclusion with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
用简单的正念创造包容,让别人拥有与你不同的现实。
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
我想不加评判地欣赏你。加入你而不入侵。不要求就邀请你。让你没有罪恶感。
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
集体恐惧会激发群体的本能,并倾向于对那些不被视为群体成员的人产生凶残的行为。
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
法律,以其庄严的平等,禁止富人和穷人睡在桥下,在街上乞讨,偷面包。
He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
他画了一个圈,把我拒之门外 异端,叛逆者,一个值得蔑视的东西。 但爱和我有智慧赢了: 我们画了一个圈把他带进去。
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
我们的社会必须使老年人不惧怕年轻人或不被年轻人抛弃成为可能,这是正确的,因为对一个文明的考验是它如何照顾其无助的成员。
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
没有自信,我们就像摇篮里的婴儿。我们如何才能以最快的速度产生这种不可估量的、但又是无价的品质呢?认为别人不如自己。
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
文明是一个过程,在这个过程中,一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数,同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人,直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
我们已经学会说,只有把善扩展到整个社会,才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是,我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献,否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。