To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

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

制定人们不能也不愿遵守的法律,只会使所有的法律受到蔑视。

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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

甚至有可能,没有其起源的法律可能是非理性的,我们永远无法成功地制定它们。

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

人们被要求把自己塑造成应该成为什么样的人,以完成自己的使命。

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

人是理性的动物,而不是理性的动物。

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

法律和房屋一样,是相互依存的。