Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  • -- Desmond Tutu 德斯蒙德·图图

普及教育不仅是道义上的必要,而且是经济上的必要,为使更多的国家自给自足和自力更生铺平道路。

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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

有时,我们似乎很难相信,在过去的某个时期,情感已成为习惯,这种习惯不仅包含着行为的原始规定性,而且还包含着生活的原始形而上学。

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

我有时总有这样一种想法:既然知道我所知道的,也看到了我所看到的,那么尽我的力量去揭露这个可怕的机构的危险和罪恶,是我义不容承的责任。

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

艺术和诗歌作家们曾多次尝试用抽象的方式来定义美,用最普遍的术语来表达美,为美寻找一些普遍的公式。

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

我相信,面对普遍的相互依赖,国家主权将会萎缩。