I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

  • -- John Stuart Mill 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔

我不知道任何社会都有权强迫另一个社会文明。

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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。

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

随着文明的进步,诗歌几乎必然会衰落。