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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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

昨日的道德已不复存在。他们和活着的时候一样死了。经济独立使妇女与男子处于完全相同的地位。

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

首先,最重要的是,要学会从其他时代中幸存下来的所有好东西,并仔细观察坏东西——然后扔掉。

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice,why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

如果他真的认为美德和邪恶没有区别,为什么,先生,当他离开我们的房子时,让我们数一数我们的勺子。

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

任何伟大的道德事业的成功都不取决于人数。

Action is the only reality, not only reality but morality, as well.

行动是唯一的现实,不仅是现实,也是道德。

Every time I’m with you, I only want you more.

每次和你在一起,我只想你更多。