If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

  • -- Frederick Pollock 波洛克

如果你否认任何行为准则都是所有试图理性行事的人所共有的,并得到他们的承认,那么,我看不出你怎么会有任何道德或法律方面的道德背景。

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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

法院总是有可能超越其适当的界限,也许宣布许多法律违宪,并以一种不应该感到沮丧的方式挫败多数人的意愿。

The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and reproved, a continual quest for ever receding Holy Grail.

男性的刻板印象不仅使男性气概成为生物学上的一个事实,而且是一件必须被证明和谴责的事情,是对不断后退的圣杯的不懈追求。

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

合理生活最有效的方式是每天早上制定一个计划,每天晚上检查所得到的结果。

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

当我写作的时候,我试着回想我害怕什么,或者对我来说什么是可怕的,试着把这些感受写进书里。

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

被法律压垮的人没有希望,只有权力。如果法律是他们的敌人,他们就会成为法律的敌人。

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

我一直在努力提高,寻找新的表达自己的方式,不断寻找真理和创意。

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

我不想听起来沾沾自喜,但我对事情的进展相当满意。我觉得挺好的。

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

大工作通常是那些能证明自己有能力克服小工作的人做的。