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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

国家不是道德的行动者，而是人，而且可以将道德标准强加给强大的机构。

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I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

在我的一生中，我学到了两个教训:第一，对于人类悲剧，没有足够的文学、心理或历史答案，只有道德答案。第二，正如绝望只能从别人那里得到一样，希望也只能从别人那里得到。

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To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

不贪婪地行动，智慧地运用知识，尊重相互依存，不傲慢和贪婪地行动，这些不仅仅是道德上的要求。它们是对生存手段的准确的科学描述。

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We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困，这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

人类生活了许多年，统治着地球，有时明智，有时良好，但大多数都不是。

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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

如果我们不给他们自尊，他们就不能剥夺我们的自尊。

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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

世界上最大的权利就是犯错的权利。

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