If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  • -- Belva Lockwood 贝尔瓦洛克伍德

如果各国只能依靠一个世界法院的公正和不偏不倚的判决,它们就会放弃毫无意义的野蛮战争做法。

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

科学的本质是,它总是愿意为了一个更好的想法而放弃一个既定的想法;神学的本质在于它认为自己的真理是永恒不变的。

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

正是因为国家倾向于愚蠢和卑劣,人类才行动得如此缓慢;正是因为个人有能力做更好的事情,它才会发生变化。

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

艺术家从来没有真正完成他的作品,他只是放弃了它。