Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  • -- Ralph Chaplin 拉尔夫·卓别林

文明要名副其实,就必须提供解决人类分歧的其他方法,而不是放血的方法。

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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

文明已经被摧毁了很多次,这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年,生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切,但地质时间是不同的。

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

世界不会进入同心协力的权力集团。实际上,它正在进入权力扩散阶段,拥有比人类文明中任何时候都多的决策中心。这就要求你把自己置于比以往任何时候都多的权力中心。

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

人类的进化不仅可以看作是人类战争的总和;它也被定义为人类思想的进化和人类意识的发展。

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

一个医生所看到的人类力量和脆弱的微光仍然伴随着我。