“The most lasting result of the French Revolution was the metric system.”
英语
“法国大革命最持久的成果是公制。”
“One of the most universal social assumptions, so universal that it is rarely stated, is that the economic system exists in order to provide what people need and want.”
英语
“最普遍的社会假设之一——普遍到很少被明确表述——是经济体系存在的目的是为了满足人们的需要和需求。正因如此，当经济体系明显做不到这一点时，才会引起如此大的愤怒。”
“Traditions which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented.”
英语
“那些看起来或声称是古老的传统，实际上往往起源晚近，有时是被发明出来的。”
“Nations do not make states and nationalisms but the other way round.”
英语
“不是民族创造了国家和民族主义，而是恰恰相反。”
“The world economy was not designed to satisfy human needs. It was designed to generate profits.”
英语
“世界经济的设计不是为了满足人的需要，而是为了产生利润。在这方面它非常高效，至于人的需要不过是副产品。”
“The destruction of the past — or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations — is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.”
英语
“对过去的摧毁——或更确切地说，对那些将当代人的经验与前辈经验联结起来的社会机制的摧毁——是二十世纪晚期最具特征性也最令人不安的现象之一。”
“The short twentieth century — from the outbreak of the first world war to the collapse of the USSR — was an era of religious wars, though the most militant and bloodthirsty of its religions were secular ideologies.”
英语
“短暂的二十世纪——从第一次世界大战爆发到苏联解体——是一个宗教战争的时代，尽管其中最好战、最嗜血的宗教是世俗意识形态。”