Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

  • -- Jonathan Swift 乔纳森·斯威夫特

对于那些富有的人来说,没有什么比想象别人是如何陷入贫困更困难的了。

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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

积极的社会情感,如同情和同理心,通常对我们有好处,我们想鼓励它们。但我们知道如何最可靠地抚养孩子去关心他人的痛苦吗?我不确定。

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

法律,以其庄严的平等,禁止富人和穷人睡在桥下,在街上乞讨,偷面包。

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

如果不是为了你自己,如果是为了那些值得你生气的人,你的同情心,那么一点点的愤怒是一件好事。

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

我想让我的孩子拥有所有我买不起的东西。然后我想搬去和他们一起住。

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

我从未见过如此天真的信念与更大的智力贫困相关联。

Poverty is unnecessary.

贫穷是不必要的。