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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  • -- John Ruskin 约翰·罗斯金

惩罚是立法者手中预防犯罪的最后和最不有效的工具。

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We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困，这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

如果我死得很惨，就像有些人害怕的那样，也有一些人在密谋，我知道凶手的思想和行动中会有暴行，而不是我的死亡。

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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

把我们从官僚主义中拯救出来的唯一办法就是效率低下。一个有效率的官僚机构是对自由的最大威胁。

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

人必须征服自己，必须对自己施暴，才能做出丝毫不沾染邪恶的行为。

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