A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
道德
Ethics
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
国家不是道德的行动者，而是人，而且可以将道德标准强加给强大的机构。
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior,
知识不能保证良好的行为，但无知实际上是坏行为的保证，
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
我们的生活完全依赖于陌生人的道德规范，而我们中的大多数人对其他人总是陌生人。
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
如果人们仅仅因为害怕惩罚而善良，而希望得到回报，那么我们真的很遗憾。
Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly and bad people will find a way around the laws.
好人不需要法律来告诉他们要负责任，坏人会找到绕过法律的方法。
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
暂时接受较小的恶也许是必要的，但永远不要把必要的恶贴上善的标签。
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。
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
道德的确不是指导人们如何使自己幸福的学说，而是指导人们如何配享有幸福的学说。
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
在这个世界上，除了善行和恶行，一切都在改变;这些跟随着你，就像影子跟随着身体一样。
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
科学不能解决道德冲突，但它可以帮助更准确地构建关于这些冲突的辩论框架。
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
你不能让自己感觉一些你感觉不到的东西，但你可以让自己做正确的事，不管你的感觉如何。
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
关心别人，使他们的问题成为自己的问题，永远是一个人真正道德发展的开始。
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
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是真、善和美……在我看来，人类奋斗的普通目标——财产、表面上的成功、奢侈——总是可鄙的。
I have my values, and if you don't like them, well I've got some others.
我有自己的价值观，如果你不喜欢，我还有其他的价值观。
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
我们看到像互惠这样的东西，这是我们道德观的核心。但如果你谈论的是一套关于我们应该做什么的规则，那么，是的，它是一种人类产品。
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
最崇高的敬拜，就是尽你所能把自己做得最好。
It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.
当你结婚后，你的父母对你做的那些事，你把你的头六个生日抛诸脑后，想要消除它们是非常困难和昂贵的。