A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

无聊是社会的真空吸尘器，吸干一切却什么也不给。讨厌的人总是渴望被人看见和你说话。

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

一个文明的社会是一个容忍怪癖到令人怀疑的理智程度的社会。

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

一个商业社会的成员本质上是苦行僧，对社会仪式漠不关心，必须为他们提供蓝图和规范，以便在任何场合唤起正确的基调。

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

一个公司被组织成一个系统——它有这个部门，那个部门，那个部门……它们没有任何单独的意义;他们只能一起工作。身体也是一个系统。社会在某种意义上是一个系统。等等。

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

一个自由的社会是不受欢迎是安全的。

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

一个文明社会至少应该为那些努力工作、毕生储蓄的人提供慷慨的基本国家养老金。

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

通识教育是公民社会的核心，而通识教育的核心是教学行为。

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

中产阶级对一个社会是如此重要，其价值不能被高估。

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

一个把特权看得比原则更重要的民族很快就会失去两者。

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

社会问题是指人们在一个社会中共同生活的方式。种族问题是生活在两个不同社会的两个不同种族所面临的问题，即使这些社会是并列的。

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

一个被令人窒息的法律网络扼杀的社会，在道德混乱中寻求解脱，不太可能快乐或稳定。

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

当老人种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在树荫下的树时，一个社会就会变得伟大。

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

对大多数人来说，职业和工作分离的社会逐渐创造了一种往往缺乏精神的经济，这种经济经常填满我们的钱包，代价是掏空我们的灵魂。

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

一个“儿童优先”的社会是一个培养每个人微笑的社会。

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

一个摆脱了所有麻烦制造者的社会正在走下坡路。