If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

  • -- Tom Robbins 汤姆·罗宾斯

如果是以上帝或国家的名义犯下的罪行,没有什么罪行是如此令人发指,以致于公众不会原谅它。

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

我的孩子们喜欢伊比沙岛,我们对它很投入,因为我们总是回到同一个地方。现在人们在商店里认出了我们,我们在这里过着社交生活。我们在家做饭,周围有朋友。

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

黑人从白人男子对其种族的妇女犯下的这一罪行中所遭受的痛苦远远超过白人从他的罪行中所遭受的痛苦。

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

如果哥伦布有一个顾问委员会,他可能还在码头上。