Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

  • -- Tryon Edwards 特赖恩·爱德华兹

妥协不过是为了保留另一种权利或利益而牺牲一种权利或利益,结果往往是两者都丧失。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

当你处理种族和阶级问题时,人们无法忍受,有时也会处理教会的问题,你给出的观点会冲淡虚伪。