But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  • -- James Baldwin 鲍德温

但是道德和权力的关系是非常微妙的。因为最终没有道德的权力不再是权力。

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The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

事实上,一切最终都归结于读者、作者和角色之间的关系。一个角色是否以一种普遍而重要的方式处理道德存在?如果是,那就是文学。

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

因此,道德美德既不是自然产生的,也不是违反自然的。自然的确在我们心中为它们的接受做了准备,但它们的完全形成是习惯的产物。

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。

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

真正的教育最终必须局限于那些坚持知道的人,其余的只是放羊。