Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

罪恶不能追根溯源到个人身上,而是要追根溯源到人类的集体行为上。

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I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

我觉得自己被自己的行为排斥了,被过去排斥了,被生活在对错误的悔恨中,我几乎每天都穿着一件汗衫痛打自己,思考和后悔自己为什么会犯这样的错误?为什么我犯了这么多错误?

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about "right" and "wrong," or "good" and "evil," and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

如果我们不再担心“对”和“错”,或“善”和“恶”,而只是为了最大限度地增进我们自己和他人的福祉而行动,我们的世界会变成什么样子?我们会失去什么重要的东西吗?

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

个人的生活史首先是适应其社区传统上传下来的模式和标准。

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

当一个人的生活中不再出现新的行为变化时,他的行为就不再具有智慧。

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

一般来说,我们的个人生活不可能是艺术品,除非社会秩序也是。

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

引诱一个人走上邪路的,不是他的敌人,而是他自己的思想。