There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

  • -- Warren E. Burger 沃伦·E·伯格

不能假设今天的大多数人是“正确的”,而阿米什人和其他类似的人是“错误的”。一种奇怪甚至不稳定但不干涉他人权益的生活方式不应因其不同而受到谴责。

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

我们可以把每一代人看作是一个独特的民族,他们有权利,按照大多数人的意愿,约束自己,但没有人比另一个国家的居民更能约束后代。

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

女士们先生们,真相不需要多数人的支持。真理本身就是力量。真相终将大白。永远不要忘记这一点。

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

无论如何,为自己的孩子将来成为成年人而写,要比为孩子的“成熟”评论家而写更健康。

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

增长是一种不稳定的前进运动:前进两步,后退一步。记住这一点,对自己要温柔。

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

我让伟大的代表们为我的最大利益和安全着想。他们刚好是我的父母。

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

我的职业生涯极不稳定。我成名了一分钟,然后就没了,你知道吗?

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

我从来没有退出过电影,可以说,我只是沉迷于其他兴趣,仅此而已。

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

一个人很可能被判有罪,不是因为他做了什么,而是因为他什么也没做。

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

没有一种劳动是不体面的;如果他们做对了。

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

不记得过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙。