The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

  • -- Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan 查尔斯·爱德华·特雷维廉爵士

我们必须与之斗争的真正邪恶不是饥荒带来的物质上的邪恶,而是人民自私、乖谬和混乱性格所带来的道德上的邪恶。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

Small evils hatch quick.

小恶魔孵化快。