Vic - Quotes of the Day 21

2011年8月30日

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
中立助長壓迫，緘默鼓勵暴行，受害者從不曾因別人保持中立或緘默而受益。
- Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

Commandment Number One for any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
真正文明的社會，第一誡皆是：容許個人特立獨行。
- David Grayson [pen name of Ray Stannard Baker], journalist, author (1870-1946)

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.
許多厚道、正派、仁慈的人沒有宗教信仰，他們憑自己的善心行事。相反，許多自稱虔誠的教徒，甚至包括那些時常祈禱的，除了關心自己，對世界似乎並不特別感興趣。
- John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator (b. 1936)