Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  • -- Oscar Levant 马刀舞曲

死刑是我们社会对人类生命神圣性的承认。

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

如果我们对人类生活中所有平凡的东西都有敏锐的洞察力,那就像听到草长出来或者松鼠的心跳,我们就会死于那咆哮,那是沉默的另一面。

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

人们对生命的尊重要高得多,无论是私下争吵还是通过司法程序,对待生命的态度都比以往严肃得多。

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

罚款比监禁和其他类型的惩罚更可取,因为罚款更有效。罚款,对违法者的惩罚也是国家的收入。

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

对思想的兴趣是人类生活的标志。人们被未来所吸引,而未来将是思想的积累。

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

世界上没有任何一项运动像棒球那样干净利落、引人注目,其因果、犯罪与惩罚、动机与结果都被如此清晰地定义。

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

人类生活的一个目的,不管谁在控制它,就是爱身边被爱的人。

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

幸福不是奖赏,而是结果。痛苦不是惩罚,而是结果。

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

朱庇特看他的笔记本很慢,但他总是在看。