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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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

在任何情况下,只有少数人抗议长期存在的法律和习俗的不公正,但这并不能证明压迫的事实是不成立的,而许多人的满足,如果是真实的,只能证明他们的冷漠和更深的堕落。

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

法律不是律师的私有财产,正义也不是法官和陪审团的专属领域。归根结底,真正的正义不是法庭和法律书籍的问题,而是我们每个人对自由和相互尊重的承诺。

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

我发现共同基金经理非常有趣的一点是,这些人是新的宇宙主人。他们管理着数十亿美元的资产,但他们每天都受制于这种安静的数字专制。

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

这个世界每天都侵入我的大脑。因为我的脑子里满是各种各样的东西,我似乎无法将它们拒之门外,所以我的工作中也必须有这些东西。

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.

我个人认为他确实触犯了法律,他犯了可弹劾的罪行。但我不认为他认为他做了。

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

在释放政治犯的问题上,我从来没有想过要让步。

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。

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

一个有学问的傻瓜比一个无知的傻瓜更笨。