Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯,是一个人当前同龄人的感情。

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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

我不是一个好父亲,他们也不再是孩子了;老大五十多岁了。我与他们母亲的关系破裂了,因为律法的缘故,他们与母亲同去,在生活中充满了母亲的道德,他们就不再是我的子民了。

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

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。