The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

法律永远不能使人自由;只有男人才能使法律自由。

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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

人类习惯了这样一个事实:有些语言是他一开始不懂的,而且必须学习,但因为艺术主要是视觉的,他希望自己应该立即得到信息,如果他不懂,就很容易被冒犯。

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

一旦你开始提供必须在公共规则下运行的公共服务,例如儿童保护,那么它就必须与公法相配合。机构必须做出决定他们是想做还是不想做。

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

一个人应该有足够的文化修养,能够以怀疑的眼光看待文化,而不是二手的。

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

法律会为任何事情与任何愿意为其智慧和时间的使用付费的人争论。