We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

  • -- Cornel West 康奈尔·韦斯特

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。

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

除了自得其乐之外,另一种最大的乐趣在于阻止别人自得其乐,或者更广泛地说,是阻止别人获得权力。

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

我们的房子是如此笨重的财产,以至于我们经常被囚禁而不是被他们所居住。

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

如果没有财产所带来的安全感,土地仍将是荒地。

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

大多数人追求快乐的速度是如此之快,以至于他们匆忙地错过了它。