A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
道德
Ethics
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
在社会的几乎每个领域,没有什么比道德更重要。
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
为了善而作恶,这不仅是道德上的错误,也是政治上的错误。
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
我认为道德总是存在的;这并不总是一种深思熟虑或深思熟虑的道德规范。
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
我们在地球上是为他人做好事的。其他人来这里干什么,我不知道。
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
最伟大的思想既能成就最大的美德,也能成就最大的罪恶。
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
脱离了道德规范,领导只能沦为管理,政治只能沦为技巧。
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.
公共道德是一切法律的自然补充:它们本身就是一整套法典。
I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
我深知每个人都有成功的权利,成功应该是有道德的。
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
道德进化的第一步是与他人团结一致。
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
善良使伟大真正有价值,伟大使善良更有用。
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
不把一件事想错的长期习惯使它表面上看起来是对的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life
我们将黄金法则铭记于心;现在让我们把它投入生活
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.
当人们向你寻求帮助时,不要用虔诚的话语来拒绝他们,说:“要有信心,把你的烦恼带到上帝那里去。”相反,要像没有上帝一样行动,就像世界上只有一个人能帮助你——只有你自己。
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
道德律要求我们把世界上可能达到的最高善作为我们一切行为的最终目标。
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
在我的一生中,我学到了两个教训:第一,对于人类悲剧,没有足够的文学、心理或历史答案,只有道德答案。第二,正如绝望只能从别人那里得到一样,希望也只能从别人那里得到。
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
如果你没有一个可以忍受的星球,那么房子有什么用呢?
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
信仰是一种道德行为,对其负有责任。