Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

今天，世界变化如此之快，在成长的过程中，我们不仅告别了青春，也告别了我们年轻时所在的世界。

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

宽容是我们为生活在自由、多元的社会中所付出的代价。

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

我们的社会有太多的人在寻找失败的人。

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

我们的社会失去了大量的人才，仅仅因为这些人才穿了一条裙子。

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

真理当然是道德的一个分支，对社会非常重要。

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

直到我们在教育上获得平等，我们才会有一个平等的社会。

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

充满活力的社会孕育着某种奢侈的目标。

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

战争不是上帝的行为。它们是由人类造成的，由人为的制度，由人类组织社会的方式造成的。人创造了什么，就能改变什么。

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

我们都是无神论者，对于社会曾经信仰的大多数神。我们中的一些人走得更远。

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

作为国会，我们有道义上的责任为这些受害者的家属伸张正义。此外，作为一个以法律为基础的社会，我们有责任确保罪犯不会逍遥法外。

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

作为一个社会，我们并不真正关心儿童，而电视反映了我们对儿童作为人类的冷漠。

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

我们吃动物是因为它们味道好。如果可以的话，穿皮草有什么不好?作为一个社会，我们需要认真思考我们制度化的动物使用。

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 a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

我们所处的社会中，你能做的最伟大的事情之一就是通过一个平台来了解受害者的身份，而这样做的一个条件就是你对事物有一种细腻而温柔的感觉，这种感觉很容易被冒犯。

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

我们的体制越来越多地对工作征税，补贴非工作。