Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

  • -- Rowan D. Williams 罗文·D·威廉姆斯

经济学家们开始认识到,严格按照平均收入来衡量国家财富和贫困,并不能说明一个社会的健康状况或生存能力有多么重要。

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

我们不能寻求或获得健康、财富、学识、正义或善良。行动总是具体的、具体的、个性化的、独特的。

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

他们的贫困保障了他们的自由,因为我们的欲望和财产是专制制度最强大的枷锁。

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

随着社会的进步,贫困的标准也在提高。

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

财富和匮乏同样使人的心变硬。