Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

无知的善良可能产生残酷的后果;但是,对它生气,好像它是直接的残忍,将是无知的无情。

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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不,这是对同志的背叛。

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

我为那些被困在残酷、支配、不平等关系中的男人和女人感到难过。我渴望全体人民的解放。

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

我不擅长在灾难和暴行之间建立因果关系。

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

最好的是尼古丁和酒精的联合作用,比这两种成分的总和还要大。