I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  • -- Frances Anne Kemble 弗朗西斯·安妮·肯布尔

我有时总有这样一种想法:既然知道我所知道的,也看到了我所看到的,那么尽我的力量去揭露这个可怕的机构的危险和罪恶,是我义不容承的责任。

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We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

如果我们必须处理陌生人的行为,我们不可能赚那么多钱。现在,任何降低我们经济生产力的人,都得走人。我们给他们留了个地方,精神病院。这是最主要的,他们会让事情慢下来。

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

如果那些致力于探索的人失败了,他们将被原谅。当他们迷路时,他们会找到另一条路。人文主义的道德使命是单独的努力,无论成功与否,只要努力是光荣的,失败是难忘的。

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

我们吃动物是因为它们味道好。如果可以的话,穿皮草有什么不好?作为一个社会,我们需要认真思考我们制度化的动物使用。

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

每个人都有自己的命运:唯一的命令就是追随它,接受它,不管它把他带到哪里。