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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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We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

我们不仅应该公正地对待那些对我们公正的人，而且应该公正地对待那些试图伤害我们的人;我们也要这样行，恐怕他们以恶报恶，我们就和他们一样有恶报。

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

任何地方的不公正对任何地方的正义都是一种威胁。我们被困在一个不可逃避的相互联系的网络中，被命运的一件外衣所束缚。任何直接影响一个人的东西，都会间接地影响所有人。

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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

在我看来，那些曾经很好的歌曲，我与它们的创作没有多大关系。这些话刚刚从我的袖子里爬了出来。

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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

与动作和动作相联系的歌唱是一种更为古老，同时也比简单的歌曲更为复杂的现象。

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

对我们的同胞最大的罪恶不是恨他们，而是对他们漠不关心;这就是不人道的本质。

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The injustice you allow against others will become injustice that comes against you.

你对别人的不公正会变成对你的不公正。

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

好与坏，好与坏，只是简单的帮助或伤害。

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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

行动不一定带来幸福，但没有行动就没有幸福。

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He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.

不惩治罪恶的，就是吩咐行恶。

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

完美的行为源于完全的冷漠。

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