I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  • -- Elie Wiesel 埃利·维瑟尔

我发誓,无论何时何地,只要有人忍受痛苦和羞辱,我绝不保持沉默。我们必须始终站在任何一方。中立帮助压迫者,而不是受害者。沉默鼓励受折磨的人,而不是受折磨的人。

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The horrors which we have seen, and the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people.

我们所看到的恐怖,以及我们现在将要看到的更大的恐怖,并不是全世界反叛、不服从、不驯服的人民的人数在增加,而是顺从、温顺的人民的人数在不断增加。

I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, 'Wait.' Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.

我不能对一个遭受不公待遇的人说:‘等等。“也许你能。我不能。我决定我不能催促他谨慎行事,我必须和他站在一起。

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

我们尽自己最大的努力去雕琢构成我们生命的那块神秘的石头是徒劳的,命运的黑色血液不断地重新出现。

If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday; we are already in it.

如果白天的寂静和夜晚的黑暗是世界末日的预兆;我们已经身处其中。

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

真正的勇气不是庸俗英雄的野蛮力量,而是美德和理智的坚定决心。

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

不要做任何你没有勇气祈求上天赐福的事情。

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

我看争战是可憎恶的。但那不亲事而赞美的,更是可憎恶的。

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

正如和平是一切美好的象征,战争也是一切苦难的象形文字。

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

我们不应让容忍堕落为漠不关心。

That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

那个人的沉默很好听。