In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

在很多国家领导人都在做同样的事情,为国家利益着想的情况下,在全球变暖这样的问题上,你很可能得不到解决方案,所以我认为你必须在这些问题上有某种道德上的特朗普。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

我们必须认识到,作为世界上的主导力量,我们负有特殊的责任。除了保护我们的国家利益,我们还必须带头保护人类的共同利益。

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

这些天的新闻有太多的例证。我看过很多编辑漫画,但我不知道漫画家在说什么,也不知道他们对某个问题的看法。

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

任何有人性和理性的人都必须得出这样的结论:如果目的,无论多么令人渴望,是不确定的,手段是可怕的和确定的,这些手段就一定不能使用。

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

我的工作基于这样一个假设:从长远来看,我们道德思维的清晰和一致性可能会让我们对道德问题持有更好的观点。

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

哲学是恰当的思乡之情;希望在家里无处不在。

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

两个悖论胜过一个悖论;他们甚至可能提出一个解决方案。

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

没有什么问题是一个女人不能提出自己的观点的。

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

世界上没有好坏之分,只有思想使然。

Time changes from sleep in moments to sleep of moments.

时间从片刻的睡眠变成片刻的睡眠。