To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  • -- Barbara Ward 巴巴拉·沃德

不贪婪地行动,智慧地运用知识,尊重相互依存,不傲慢和贪婪地行动,这些不仅仅是道德上的要求。它们是对生存手段的准确的科学描述。

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问,如果我们不能相信圣经,我们能相信什么?

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

我们愿意相信我们不是为了生存而是为了做一个好人,我们不愿意承认我们是为了生存才做一个好人。

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

每个年轻人都应该牢记,所有成功的事业都是建立在道德基础上的。

Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.

道德不是事物的本来面目,而是它们应该是怎样的。