As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

  • -- Richard Holbrooke 霍尔布鲁克

当国家与现代化作斗争时,落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。

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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire population.

我们今天面临的问题之一是,有些国家严重缺乏资源,生活水平很低,这给全体人民造成了根本的不安和不适。

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

但是,如果有太多的国家象过去那样过多地干涉阿富汗的内政和政治局势,那么我们当然不能希望取得令人满意的结果。

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

现代性是短暂的,稍纵即逝的,偶然的;它是艺术的一半,另一半是永恒的、不可改变的。

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

现代社会已经用法律术语取代了道德规范,法律可以通过一个好的律师来驾驭。