We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

我们不是动物。我们不是过去发生在我们身上的事情的产物。我们有选择的权利。

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

如果我们能恰当地运用自然之神赋予我们的能力，我们就不软弱。先生，战斗不仅仅是针对强者，而是针对警惕的、积极的、勇敢的人。

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

我们把越来越多的能量投入到一个越来越不可靠的系统中。

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

我们是历史上唯一被留下来独自战斗的阶级，没有统治力量的帮助。白人劳工和自由的黑人有他们的拥护者，但是我们的呢?

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

我们只能成为我们赋予自己力量的人。

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

我们不能随便说印第安角核电站是安全的，我们必须着眼于长远，因为它最终会退役，我们现在必须积极工作，引进新的能源。

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

我们无法避免使用权力，无法逃避折磨世界的冲动，因此，让我们在措辞上谨慎，在矛盾中强大，强有力地去爱吧。

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

我们不能通过说“观察”来创造观察者，而是通过赋予他们观察的能力和手段，而这些手段是通过感官教育获得的。

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

我们不需要魔法来改变我们的世界。我们内心已经拥有了所有我们需要的力量。

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

我们不知道自己体内的力量。

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

我们把自己的权力交给了当初夺走我们权力的人。

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

每次我们不利用别人的弱点时，我们都会成长一点。

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

我们有一个以市场为导向的社会，如此痴迷于买卖，痴迷于权力、快乐和财产。

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间，但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

我们有能力重新开始世界。