The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  • -- Jane Addams 珍妮·亚当斯

不道德的本质是倾向于对自己破格。

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

只有人是真诚的。当第二个人出现时,伪善就开始了。我们用赞美、闲言碎语、娱乐和风流韵事来搪塞和阻挡同胞的接近。我们用一百倍的篇幅向他掩饰我们的思想。

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

暂时接受较小的恶也许是必要的,但永远不要把必要的恶贴上善的标签。

The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

叛国的最高形式:以错误的理由做正确的事。

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

虚伪是犬儒主义的外在表现。