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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  • -- Freda Adler 福雷达·阿德勒

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。

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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

我们已经学会说，只有把善扩展到整个社会，才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是，我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献，否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。

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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。

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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

偶然引起希望或恐惧的事物被称为好兆头或坏兆头。

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The possibility of other possibilities are always possible.

其他可能性的可能性总是存在的。

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