I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  • -- Isak Dinesen 伊萨克·迪内森

我不相信邪恶,我只相信恐怖。自然界中没有邪恶,只有无尽的恐惧:瘟疫、枯萎病、蚂蚁和蛆。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

我们所看到的未来的第一个近似值是,每个人的身体都将富裕起来。他们将拥有大量的物质财富,我认为这将缓和我们现在看到的一些冲突。

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

在这个世界上,人们所需要的一切都是无限丰富的。但是人们需要一切,除了无限的富足。