Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

  • -- Patrick Geddes 格迪斯

每一种社会形态,通过其每一种物质活动,都对公民整体产生影响;它的每一个思想和理想都赢得了它的地位和力量。

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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

莱温斯基丑闻之后,一切都变了,我们从用圣经来解决我们这个时代的道德问题,社会问题,到我们这个时代的道德问题,非常个人化。我一直保持着这种关系,直到现在。

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。