There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  • -- Ida M. Tarbell 塔贝尔

如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

精神分析学,在治疗的伪装下,是完全消除人的道德能力。

There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavour to make it poetic.

对于散文风格的形成来说,没有什么比努力使其富有诗意更危险的了。

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

当心虚假的知识;它比无知更危险。

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

我从来没有说谎。我想我过着道德的生活。

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

如果你能接受失败,你就赢不了。