Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

  • -- Rowan D. Williams 罗文·D·威廉姆斯

经济学家们开始认识到,严格按照平均收入来衡量国家财富和贫困,并不能说明一个社会的健康状况或生存能力有多么重要。

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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

贫穷是掩盖伟大的面纱。恳求是一张掩盖苦难的面具。

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

如果人们在战争中奴性地服从规则,他们就会失败。

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

我相信,只要有足够的,贫穷就是邪恶的。

Whoever hastens to grow rich will not go unpunished.

任何急于致富的人都会受到惩罚。