People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  • -- Mikhail Bakunin 巴枯宁

人们去教堂的原因和去酒馆的原因是一样的:让自己麻木,忘记痛苦,想象自己,哪怕只有几分钟,自由而快乐。

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

在教堂里看到了一场婚礼。奇怪的是,我们这些结了婚的人看到这些可怜的傻瓜被骗到我们这种地步,心里是多么高兴。

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

如果穷人的痛苦不是由自然法则造成的,而是由我们的制度造成的,那么我们的罪就太大了。

Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous.

生黄瓜使教堂庭院繁荣昌盛。

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

痛苦伴随着诉讼。