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Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.
厌恶是如此令人安心;这似乎是一个道德上的证明。
— Jed Rubenfeld 贾德·鲁本菲尔德
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更多好句 ↗We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
我们已经学会说,只有把善扩展到整个社会,才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是,我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献,否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。
Jane Addams
珍妮·亚当斯
The immorality of morality.
道德中的不道德。
Henry Miller
亨利·米勒
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
虚伪是罪恶对美德的崇敬。
Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
不断感受成为第一的需要。但我希望你是第一个坠入爱河的人。我希望你在道德上成为第一。我希望你是第一个慷慨大方的人。
Martin Luther King Jr
马丁·路德·金
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
太忙于行善的人,找不到时间去行善。
Rabindranath Tagore
泰戈尔
[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.
真理只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计,正如权利只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计一样。
William James
威廉·詹姆斯