Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

  • -- Christopher Dawson 克里斯多夫·道森

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

除非你在你的国家变得更加警惕,检查垄断的精神和对独家特权的渴望,否则你最终会发现……你对自己最大利益的控制权已经落入这些公司手中。

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

你真的必须努力创造空间,至少在一段时间内,阻止政治世界涌入。重要的是保持理智。

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

有时候,当一件事花了这么长时间才浮出水面,而你又不知道它是否真的会浮出水面时,你会觉得自己被诅咒了。

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

我们和德尔里奥斯在种植园旅馆工作过。那里真的很疯狂。

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

善的目的不能使恶的手段成圣;我们也不可作恶,为要得福乐。