All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  • -- Morris West 莫里斯·韦斯特

所有的机构都容易腐败和其成员的恶习。

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了,取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

如果像自然的那样,你把注意力集中在腐败和那些受到威胁的试图阻止变革的机构上——尽管它们并不真正知道自己试图阻止什么——那么你就会变得悲观。