To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

把一个既不能定义也不能设想的概念作为公共道德的标准,就等于打开了每一种暴政的大门。

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

在花园门口总是有道德的土狼,在街道的尽头总是有真正的狼。

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

他是一个没有道德的人所能做到的最伟大的人。