More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

更常见的情况是道德和权宜之计之间的妥协。

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Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

不要让权宜之计说服你。这是一条通往遗忘的漫长之路。这是一条痛苦的道路,一步一步地毁灭,一点一点地毁灭,就像河流创造了一个峡谷,我们热爱的生活方式。

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

我们愿意相信我们不是为了生存而是为了做一个好人,我们不愿意承认我们是为了生存才做一个好人。

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

脱离了道德规范,领导只能沦为管理,政治只能沦为技巧。

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

习惯适应权宜。