Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

人们崇拜机器,因为它们美丽而珍贵,因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们,因为他们丑陋不堪,憎恨他们,因为他们强加奴隶制度。

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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

因此,这些经文远不能证明正在审议的奴隶制是正当的;因为不能让人看出这些奴隶中有千分之一的人做过任何丧失自己自由的事。

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

像我父亲一样,我小时候也不会把任何东西扔掉,把旧玩具、电动机和破机器的碎片放在床底下我称之为“有用的东西盒子”里。

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

我们的身体是机器,必须有功能,要做到这一点,它们必须得到适当的喂养。

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

对大多数人来说,感激之情不过是一种获得进一步恩惠的隐秘希望。

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

出生就像被绑架。然后被卖为奴隶。

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

这是罗马人的方式:给喜欢的人帮忙。