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道德
Ethics
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
只有那些不教导、不叫喊、不屈尊、不解释的东西才是不可抗拒的。
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
大自然教给我们的比她说教的要多。石头里没有布道。从石头中得到火花比从道德中得到道德更容易。
You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions.
你知道人们常说:如果上帝是一个自由主义者，我们就不会有十诫。我们应该有十个建议。
[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.
真理只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计，正如权利只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计一样。
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
当我们保卫国家的时候，我们必须接受自己是最高尚道德的守护者。国家需要它，我们必须这样做。
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
除去道德上的合理化和哲学上的自命不凡，犯罪是当权者选择禁止的任何行为。
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
道德是无法定义的，是无法实现的，因为它是无意识的;它不仅涉及我们的思维，还涉及我们的感觉。
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
我们的目标应该是让我们的孩子成为好人，过有道德的生活，表现出对他人和自己的关心。
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
在任何特定的时间或地点，道德是什么?这是当时和当时大多数人碰巧喜欢的，不道德是他们不喜欢的。
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice,why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
如果他真的认为美德和邪恶没有区别，为什么，先生，当他离开我们的房子时，让我们数一数我们的勺子。
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
只有当一个人服从帮助他所能帮助的所有生命的冲动，并避免伤害任何生命时，他才是真正有道德的。
I find that when I dislike what I see on the stage I can be vastly amusing, but when I write about something I like I find that I am appallingly dull.
我发现当我不喜欢我在舞台上看到的东西时，我可以非常有趣，但当我写一些我喜欢的东西时，我发现我是可怕地沉闷。
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Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.
厌恶是如此令人安心;这似乎是一个道德上的证明。
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 a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.
在很多国家领导人都在做同样的事情，为国家利益着想的情况下，在全球变暖这样的问题上，你很可能得不到解决方案，所以我认为你必须在这些问题上有某种道德上的特朗普。
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.
任何有人性和理性的人都必须得出这样的结论:如果目的，无论多么令人渴望，是不确定的，手段是可怕的和确定的，这些手段就一定不能使用。
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
按道德行事的行为就好像我们做的每件事都很重要。
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。