The human race has improved everything except the human race.

  • -- Adlai E. Stevenson II 阿德莱·史蒂文森二世

除了人类,人类已经改善了一切。

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

它最看重的是所有事件和文明进步的总和,而文明进步也带来了个人;但是,对细节漠不关心,它更关心的是高尚,或者,更确切地说,宏大和完整,而不是真实的细节。

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

在过去的许多年里,我一直在思索着那些高贵的红族人,他们现在散布在这些无路可走的森林和无边无际的草原上,随着文明的到来而逐渐消失。

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

我觉得我更喜欢有潜台词的角色,不管潜台词是什么,他们不一定要善良,但至少要有人性。

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

笑是理性的特权之一,仅限于人类。