Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

  • -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

没有什么比个人责任更能强化判断,更能唤醒良知。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

当我不开心的时候,我听到了一场歌剧……那仿佛是风的尖叫;当我快乐的时候,麻雀的啁啾对我来说是美味的。但使我快乐的不是啁啾,而是我使它甜蜜。

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

我们不需要成为神学家就能看到,我们已经把让世界变得有趣的责任从上帝转移到了新闻工作者身上。

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

我不确定我能不能说在我个人和律师之间有一条清晰的界线。

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

国家从哪里开始,个人自由就从哪里结束,反之亦然。

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

有良知的好人不会走得那么快。