A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

一个更公正的社会是一个更少需要慈善的社会。

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

如果一个社会认为在两种生活方式之间做出选择只是在同样符合条件的“生活方式”之间做出选择，那么它就会把大学变成学术自助餐厅，为思想提供垃圾食品。

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

一件艺术品对社会没有任何重要性。它只对个人重要。

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

学术社会学家接受的训练是把他们的学科——社会学——看作是对社会的科学研究，并把对个人的研究交给心理学的姐妹学科。

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

青春期是社会允许人们将身体成熟与心理上的不负责任结合起来的阶段。

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

我们社会迄今存在的所有监狱都把人关起来，因为没有人应该被关起来。

All societies are historical.

所有的社会都是历史的。

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

你现在所做的就是在社会中追求你的个人目标。我们不是一个社区，每个人都被要求追求自己的个人目标。它被称为竞争。竞争就是对抗。

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

永远保持微笑。这就是我长寿的原因。

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

另一方面，一个获得解放的社会将不是一个统一的国家，而是在和解分歧中实现普遍性。

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

创新是社会所关注的事情之一，如果我们把创新作为我们生活和工作方式的一部分，它将改变我们的生活和工作方式。

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

古代社会有拟人化的神:一个巨大的万神殿扩展到几个世纪的王朝戏剧;父亲和儿子，殉难的英雄，不幸的恋人，国王的死亡——这些故事告诉我们傲慢的危险和谦逊的首要地位。

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

而那些身居高位的人必须是那些开始塑造一个更贴近内心的新现实的人。

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

就像在地质学中一样，在社会制度中，我们可以发现过去一切变化的原因，而这些变化都发生在现在不变的社会秩序中。

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life; nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

只要人是人，一个贫穷的社会就不可能穷到找不到正确的生活秩序;一个富裕的社会也不会因为太富裕而没有必要去追求它。