It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
我一直觉得奇怪……我们钦佩的那些品质,如善良、慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和同情,在我们的体系中往往是失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质,如精明、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自负和自私,却是成功的特质。虽然人们钦佩前者的品质,但他们却喜欢后者的产物。
我正在努力成长为一个男人,并从我的错误中学习。
我认为最好的写作来自真实的地方,即使它是痛苦的。
幽默只是对抗宇宙的另一种防御机制。
The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the process of modernization.
人は、自分が傷つくことを恐れるあまり、他人を傷つけてしまうことがある。
战争是一件丑陋的事情,但不是最丑陋的事情:道德和爱国情感的腐化和堕落状态认为没有什么事情值得一场战争,这要糟糕得多。