The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

最严厉的法律有时会变成最严重的不公正。

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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

我从来没有理解过活动假期,因为我们在日常生活中似乎有太多的活动。寻找一种文化,在这种文化中,游手好闲是家常便饭,他们不理解我们需要不断地做事。找一个你可以享受吊床假期的地方。

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

不,我可以告诉你,内政大臣上任后首先要做的一件事是,他们会得到一份关于他们将要处理的安全事务的简报,而我每天都要处理安全事务。

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

从长远来看,压迫者也是受害者。在短期内(到目前为止,人类历史只是由短期组成的),受害者,他们自己绝望,被压迫他们的文化污染,转而攻击其他受害者。

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

因为正如良好的道德如果要保持,就需要法律一样,法律如果要遵守,就需要良好的道德。

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

我有一种政治正确的感觉。我讨厌它。它使我们静静地躺着,而不是说出我们的想法。

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

我们称他们为野蛮人是因为他们的举止与我们不同。