A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
法律
Law
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
很久以前,作为一名检察官,我学到的一件事是,如果没有对违法者的惩罚,要让他们遵守法律是很难的。
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
肤浅的人认为自由是对一切法律和约束的解放。智者在其中看到的恰恰相反,是强有力的法律法则。
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
人类的真正规律是进步和发展。每当文明在征服过程中停顿下来,它就会被野蛮人推翻。
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
使第十四条修正案产生的目的是在法律面前人人平等,而平等,而不是分离,被写进了法律。
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.
我希望有什么办法能使法律改变。他们可以在你死后写关于你的任何事情,而你对此无能为力。
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
琐事定律…简单地说,这意味着在议程任何项目上花费的时间将与所涉数额成反比。
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
如果你相信这是一个法治的世界,那么这个世界就会出现足够多的问题;不要相信这是一个充满奇迹的世界。
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
法律限制一个人不伤害他的同胞,虽然它减少了自然,却增加了人类的公民自由。
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
目前的法律有一个程序来确定病人是否处于持续性植物人状态,政客们怎么想都不应该成为问题。
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
听着,小男孩。在这个行业里,你只有遵守一条法律才能避免麻烦。先做,自己做,坚持下去。
Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
无论是那些非法越境者,还是雇用非法移民的企业,都不尊重我国的移民法。
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
你做出的某些承诺比法庭上发生的任何事情都要神圣,我不在乎你把你的手放在多少本圣经上。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
我不想通过惩罚性的法律,也不想利用政治作为报复。
I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.
我交大约三分之一的税,我捐出大约三分之一,我遵守法律。
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
乡下人夹在两个律师中间,就像鱼夹在两只猫中间一样。
Law is costly; shake hands and be friends.
法律是昂贵的;握手,做朋友。
The law often allows what honor forbids.
法律允许而荣誉禁止。
The Law is the Law!
法律就是法律!