Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  • -- Ulysses S. Grant 格兰特

虽然我的职业是军人,但我从来没有对战争有过任何好感,我也从来没有提倡过战争,除非把它当作一种和平的手段。

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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

妈妈对我说:“如果你是一名士兵,你就会成为一名将军。”如果你是个和尚,你就会成为教皇。”相反,我是个画家,后来成了毕加索。

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

天才不是因为从事某一职业而在某一领域出类拔萃,而是因为他们出类拔萃而在某一领域工作。

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

我认为,如果我们不改变我们的生活方式,祈求世界和平是幼稚的。

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

我认为罗马人认为,如果有必要,今天的将军明天就应该当兵。

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

永远不要认为战争,无论多么必要,多么正当,都不是犯罪。

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

我的论点是战争创造了非常好的历史;但和平是贫乏的阅读。

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

思考战争就是思考人类最可怕的经历。