Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

我们的生活是由社会为社会目的而创造的事物的一般概念所指导的。

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

我们的现代社会——尤其是在西方，尤其是现在——崇敬年轻人。

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

我们对完美社会的概念是把家庭作为其中心和装饰，而这个天堂只有在孩子们表现出活力并完成画面时才会安全。

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

我们的社会发现，真理是一种太强大的药物，无法完全消化。真理最纯粹的形式，不是礼貌的轻拍肩膀。这是一种强烈的谴责。

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

我们的社会已经对理性的力量失去了信心，也许科学理性除外。

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

我们的社会并不完美，这对你们许多人来说并不奇怪。

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。

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

我们的社会需要重建关怀的文化。

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

我们的社会努力避免任何冒犯任何人的可能性——除了上帝。

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

我们社会的价值观正在被广告对等式的坚持所破坏:青春等于受欢迎，受欢迎等于成功，成功等于幸福。

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

总的来说，许多社会价值观都是粪坑。

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

人们的行为会受到社会规范的约束，甚至超越社会规范。

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

人们有很多社会强加给他们的可怕的问题，也因此有很多工作要做。

People make the rules of society, not God.

人们制定社会规则，而不是上帝。

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same

人们可能讨厌你与众不同，不按社会标准生活，但在内心深处，他们希望自己也有勇气这么做