A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  • -- Margaret Atwood 玛格丽特·阿特伍德

声音是人类的天赋;它应该被珍惜和使用,尽可能地充分表达人类的语言。无能为力与沉默相伴。

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In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

从长远来看,压迫者也是受害者。在短期内(到目前为止,人类历史只是由短期组成的),受害者,他们自己绝望,被压迫他们的文化污染,转而攻击其他受害者。

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

我们不认为阿富汗战争已经结束…战斗已经开始,火力正在增强。这些战火将蔓延到白宫,因为它是不公正和暴政的中心。

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

橡树倒下时,整个森林都回响着它倒下的声音,但是,一阵不被人注意的微风,却在寂静中播下了一百颗橡子。

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

诗歌是语言的命运之一……有人会说,诗意的意象,就其新颖性而言,为语言打开了一个未来。

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison.

沉默,永远是我的堡垒,有时是我的监狱。

Speaking silence is better than senseless speech.

沉默胜于无谓的言语。