What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

  • -- Alfred North Whitehead 阿尔弗雷德北怀特黑德

在任何特定的时间或地点,道德是什么?这是当时和当时大多数人碰巧喜欢的,不道德是他们不喜欢的。

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So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement.

因此,从这个高峰时期开始,每一个反对统一教会的人或组织都会逐渐衰落,或急剧衰落,直至消亡。许多人将会死去——那些反对我们运动的人。

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

为了保持你的自尊,做你知道是对的事去得罪别人,总比做你知道是错的事去暂时取悦别人要好。

Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

良好的仪容仪表是不可或缺的,无可挑剔的风格是必须的。如果你看起来不像,没有人会愿意给你时间和金钱。

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

道德不是指导我们如何使自己幸福的学说,而是指导我们如何使自己配得上幸福的学说。

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

我相信,当罪恶得到应有的报应时,就已经向公共道德迈出了一大步。

What men do matters more than what they know.

男人做什么比他们知道什么更重要。