Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不,这是对同志的背叛。

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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

这场冲突的过程尚不清楚,但其结果是肯定的。自由与恐惧,正义与残忍,一直处于战争状态,我们知道上帝在它们之间并不是中立的。

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

动物用它们的排泄物勾勒出它们的领地,人类用墨水在纸上勾勒出它们的领地。

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

残酷是遍及自然界和社会的法则;如果我们想摆脱它,我们也摆脱不了。

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

人类是一种多毛、有尾巴的四足动物的后代,可能生活在树上。

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

许多法律肯定会造就坏人,正如坏人会制定许多法律一样。

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

动物常常给我们的印象是充满激情的机器。