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 brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时,我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待,但它已经进步了。

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

这个解决方案可能不会吸引我们人类的骄傲,但问题是我们人类的骄傲本身就是罪恶的。