A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
良心
Conscience
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
有良知的生活就像踩着刹车开车。
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
良心的折磨是活生生的灵魂的地狱。
The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.
媒体不需要良心;人们需要良知。
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
许多人把短暂的记忆误认为问心无愧。
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
指望全世界的良知是鲁莽的。
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
没有什么比偏执狂的良心更危险的了。
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
当他们应该抗议时,却以沉默来犯罪会使人变成懦夫。
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
写作是我们祖先的良知、顾虑和耕作。
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
问心无愧的人,会很容易地感到满足和平静。
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
永远不要做违背良心的事,即使国家要求。
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
有罪的良心需要承认。一件艺术品是一种忏悔。
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
良心与勇敢的关系并不比与政治的关系更大。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
好朋友,好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
问心无愧是一个好枕头。
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
正义是良知,不是个人的良知,而是全人类的良知。那些清楚地认识到自己良心的声音的人通常也认识到正义的声音。
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
对我来说,保持纯洁的良心远比指导任何伟大的目标重要。
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。