A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
犯罪
Crime
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
几乎所有的犯罪都源于对审美表达的压抑欲望。
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
贫穷可能是犯罪之母,但缺乏理智则是犯罪之父。
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
充满荣耀的犯罪通过激发神圣的恐惧来巩固权威。
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
惩罚不是为了报复,而是为了减少犯罪,改造罪犯。
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
宁可让罪人的罪不受惩罚,也不要定无辜者的罪。
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
生活只不过是一场竞争,让我们成为罪犯,而不是受害者。
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
腐败犯罪的共犯往往是我们自己的冷漠。
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
潜逃-以一种神秘的方式移动,通常带有另一种性质。
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
我们制定了许多制造罪犯的法律,然后又制定了一些惩罚罪犯的法律。
Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.
罪是我们感情的错觉;而犯罪是我们行为的错觉。
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
永远不要认为战争,无论多么必要,多么正当,都不是犯罪。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
犯罪的世界是真实、纯洁、自发事件的最后避难所。
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
法律能多准确地定案?必须有一个非常快速的行动机制。法律是这样规定的:抓住他们,惩罚他们。
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
事实上,如果你有犯罪行为,你去催眠,你不能作证。因为没有办法检验什么是真实的,什么是事实,什么是幻想。
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
对于四十多岁的人来说,犯罪是一种外来的可怕的恐怖。