A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
不公正
Injustice
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
如果在极限状态下,你能在没有犯罪的情况下执政,你就不能在没有不公正的情况下执政。
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
这些资本家通常协调一致地榨取人民的钱财。
The injustice you allow against others will become injustice that comes against you.
你对别人的不公正会变成对你的不公正。
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
所有的错误都是由思想引起的。如果思维发生了转变,错误行为还会存在吗?
"The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive." Alas, who says so? They who do survive.
“不健康的人会死——健康的人会活,也会茁壮成长。” 唉,谁这么说呢?他们活下来了。
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
贫富之间的不平衡是所有共和国中最古老和最致命的弊病。
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
我不知道如何为自己辩护:惊讶的天真无法想象受到怀疑。
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
发挥一个人的力量有两种方式:一种是向下推,另一种是向上拉。
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.
人类并非生来就有鞍,也不是少数人喜欢骑鞍。
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
你不应成为受害者。你不应该成为一个犯罪者。最重要的是,你不能做一个旁观者。
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
我讨厌不公正,我不得不反对它。但是我不想卷入政治。
Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
无法克服的明显和无情的压迫不会引起反抗,而是会使人屈服。
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
只要正义和不公正没有结束它们在人类事务中为取得支配地位而进行的不断更新的斗争,人类就必须愿意在必要时为正义和不公正进行斗争。
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
黑夜不会一下子降临,压迫也不会一下子降临。在这两种情况下,当一切似乎都保持不变时,就会有一个黄昏。正是在这样的暮色中,我们所有人都必须意识到空气中的变化,无论多么轻微,以免我们不知不觉地成为黑暗的牺牲品。
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
显而易见的不公正存在于所有没有被偏见蒙蔽的人面前。
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
在任何情况下,只有少数人抗议长期存在的法律和习俗的不公正,但这并不能证明压迫的事实是不成立的,而许多人的满足,如果是真实的,只能证明他们的冷漠和更深的堕落。