The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

忠诚的问题对我来说很难。社会让我们相信，当我们不是虎鲸或任何一夫一妻制的物种时，我们应该是一夫一妻制的。

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

最好的衣服是一个人自己的皮肤，但是，当然，社会要求的不止这些。

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

社会的首要责任是让每个成员都有可能完成自己的使命。当它不能履行这一职责时，就必须改变它。

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

秘密社会的首要内部关系是其成员之间的相互信任。

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

自由社会的首要原则是在一个开放的论坛上畅所欲言。

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

在一个仍然存在的社会中，腐败的第一个迹象是，目的证明手段是正当的。

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能，通过它所有的变异，一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性，以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说，文学是颠覆性的。

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

在高度分化的社会中，家庭的功能不能直接解释为代表社会的功能，而是代表个人的功能。

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

一个社会偏离真理越远，它就越痛恨那些说真话的人。

The great hope of society is in individual character.

社会的最大希望在于个人的品格。

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

最大的失败是，尽管我们创建了制度，但我们没有创建一个公民社会。

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

人类的想象力已经开始构想再造人类社会的可能性。

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

当我们对老虎没有防御能力时，人类生存的前景比我们今天对自己没有防御能力时要好得多。

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

人们对彼此的想象是社会的真实事实。

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

组织一个另类社会的关键是组织人们围绕他们能做什么，更重要的是，他们想做什么。