What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

一个国家所谓的重要经济利益,不是使其公民能够生存的东西,而是使其能够发动战争的东西。汽油比小麦更有可能成为国际冲突的原因。

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

这就是人类的处境,希望自己的国家伟大,就是希望自己的邻居受到伤害。

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

战争是一个球拍。毫无疑问。但是战争是政客们的骗局,而不是士兵们的。