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道德
Ethics
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
科学进步使道德进步成为必然;因为如果人的力量增强了，阻止他滥用力量的制约就必须加强。
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
我不相信个人的不朽，我认为道德是人类独有的，没有任何超人权威的支持。
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of this world is an idea that can't persist any longer. If it does, then we won't.
认为道德与你使用这个世界资源的方式无关，这种想法已经不能再坚持下去了。如果是，我们就不会。
There is ....but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
有....但有一种绝对命令，即:只按照你能同时使它成为普遍法则的那一格言行事。
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
我们愿意相信我们不是为了生存而是为了做一个好人，我们不愿意承认我们是为了生存才做一个好人。
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
不断感受成为第一的需要。但我希望你是第一个坠入爱河的人。我希望你在道德上成为第一。我希望你是第一个慷慨大方的人。
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
当然，艺术界的道德规范很重要。但博物馆并不比任何其他机构或企业更纯粹。学者并不一定比画廊家高尚。
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
所以我认为道德是一个更广泛的东西，它不那么关注禁令，而是更多地关注原则、问题和如何生活的想法。
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。
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
为了保持你的自尊，做你知道是对的事去得罪别人，总比做你知道是错的事去暂时取悦别人要好。
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
骄傲常常伴随着力量，我们决不能认为正义是站在强者一边的。使用权力必须始终伴随着道德选择。
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。
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
没有投票权的人就是没有保护的人。
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。
Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.
理性引导我们试图了解周围的世界。理性和同情心都引导我们努力将知识运用到道德上，去理解他人，并与他人建立道德关系。
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。
Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
永远做正确的事——这会让一些人感到满足，让其他人感到惊讶。
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。