The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

  • -- Gerry Spence 格瑞·斯宾塞

法律的作用不是提供正义或维护自由。法律的作用是使掌握权力的人继续掌权。

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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。

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

因为说到底,自由是个人的、孤独的战斗;一个人要放下今天的恐惧,这样明天的恐惧才会被激发起来。