Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

  • -- Jose Ortega y Gasset 加塞

文明无非是企图把武力减少到最后的手段。

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

一个文明的国家可以没有敌人,一个人不能在地图上画一条线,这条线甚至在自然界中都不存在,说丑陋的敌人生活在一边,好朋友生活在另一边。

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

文明的存在,就是为了没有群众,只有足够警觉的人,永远不会构成群众。