If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

  • -- Jonathan Sacks 乔纳森·萨克斯

如果说赎罪日的历史对我们有什么启示的话,那就是:永远不要免除个人的道德责任。我们拥有的越多,成长的就越多。

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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

当被遗弃时,一些鸟类部落会救助和抚养他们自己和其他部落中无助的幼鸟。

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

首领是承担责任的人。他说“我被打败了”,他没有说“我的人被打败了”。