The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  • -- Harper Lee 哈珀李

唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。

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And someday, when that person touches somebody else, maybe even way in the future, that rattlesnake energy might come humping up out of them by accident and hurt that next person too, even though they didn’t mean to, and even though the person didn’t deserve it.

总有一天,当那个人触碰了别人,甚至是在未来,那条响尾蛇的能量可能会意外地从他们身上冒出来,并伤害下一个人,即使他们不是故意的,即使那个人不值得。

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

每个人都有自己的工作要做,有责任到国外去履行,有影响要发挥,这些都是他特有的,只有他自己的良心才能教导他。

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

我有一个简单的原则,我只朝一个方向前进——我从头到尾写这本书。跟随时间之箭,我让自己保持清醒。

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

当然,在这个一切都被掩盖的现代,当有人说出自己的想法时,大多数公众都会说,我很乐意这样说。

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

我必须来自某个地方,来自一个消极和积极的地方,但大多数地方都是消极的。

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

如果你演奏一个曲子,而一个人不轻拍他的脚,那就不要演奏曲子。

The king reigns, but does not govern.

国王统治,但不统治。