The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

邪恶胜利的唯一必要条件是好人什么也不做。

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

当命运向你走来的时候,接受它是一件好事。如果不是,不要称之为命运;你可以称之为不公正、背叛或简单的坏运气。

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

重要的是我要在某些方面有所作为。这并不一定是我如何做出改变,但我想确保我做到了。

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

科学也许已经找到了一种治疗大多数罪恶的方法;但它并没有找到解决最糟糕问题的办法——人类的冷漠。

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

对于新获得的自由所产生的罪恶,只有一种治疗方法,那就是自由。

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

在我们内心善与恶之间持续不断的交流中,只有同情是独立的。

Doubt is a necessary precondition to meaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

怀疑是采取有意义行动的必要先决条件。最终,恐惧才是最大的动力。

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.

藐视世界的,是世界的主人;珍视世界的,是世界的奴隶。

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

关于正义的不公正,可以写一本书。

Apprehension of evil is worse than the evil itself.

对邪恶的恐惧比邪恶本身更糟糕。

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

宽容是冷漠的另一种说法。