Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  • -- Claude Levi-Strauss 斯特劳斯

我们的制度是荒谬至极的,因为我们既把罪犯当作孩子来对待,以便有权惩罚他,又把他当作成年人来拒绝给予他安慰。

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It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

当我想起主,就是我以谦卑和孩童般的信心亲近的主,曾为我受苦,为我死,他必以慈爱和怜悯看顾我,这对我是极大的安慰。

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

我不需要惩罚犯罪的人。罪是它自己的惩罚,从里面吞吃你。惩罚它不是我的本意;治愈它是我的快乐。

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

哲学的慰藉之一是,展示如何摒弃一个概念的好处并不取决于摒弃它。

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

我要罗恩站起来对付马尔福,惩罚他。