Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

  • -- James Q. Wilson 詹姆士·威尔逊

犯罪是社会为抛弃品格所付出的代价。

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I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

我做我现在喜欢做的事。如果我明天醒来决定要跳舞,我就会这么做。或设计衣服。我想无论我现在在做什么,我都会全力以赴。这不是放弃我以前做过的事,或者放弃。而是要知道,如果我明天就死了,我会按照我想要的方式生活。

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

在希斯的案例中,争论的焦点是,这个病态的社会,我们称之为西方文明,在其极端情况下,是否还能培养出这样一个人,他对西方文明的信心是如此之大,以至于他会自愿放弃人们认为好的东西,包括生命,来捍卫它。

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

当中产阶级受到伤害时,什么也不做。这不是领导。规章制度宽松,执法不严。这不是领导。这是在抛弃我们的中产阶级。

I have one desire now to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

我现在有一个心愿,就是要为主过放荡不羁的生活,把我所有的精力和力量都放在这上面。