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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.

  • -- Alfred North Whitehead 阿尔弗雷德北怀特黑德

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。

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I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

我认为音乐应该以某种方式反映你自己，而不仅仅是在特定的时间。我觉得当你死的时候，或者你走的时候，应该有人听着你的音乐，了解你的一切。我只是想让大家明白这一点。

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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

在一切叫做生命的事物面前，我只能肃然起敬。我唯一能做的就是对所有被称为生命的东西怀有同情。这是所有道德的开端和基础。

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For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

要让孩子认真对待道德，他们必须在认真对待道德的成年人面前。他们必须亲眼看到成年人认真对待道德。

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Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

道德，对于人类心灵所受到的和所受的一切制约，归根结底始终是个人的选择。

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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。

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If an offense has hurt you too much, leave it, my friend, for a future time.

如果冒犯对你造成了太大的伤害，我的朋友，留给将来吧。

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