I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  • -- Charles Krauthammer 查尔斯·克劳瑟默

我不信教。我不认为人格是由概念赋予的。但我也不认为人类胚胎在道德上等同于一根倒刺,它只配得上一个阑尾。

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I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

我相信破碎的、破碎的、复杂的叙事,但我相信叙事是真理的载体,不仅仅是一种娱乐形式,虽然我喜欢娱乐,但也是一种表达我所关心的作品需要传达什么的方式。

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.

由于这些犹豫和这种革新的含糊其辞,人权委员会本身从一开始就对其作用和一般职能表示怀疑。

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

它之所以具有人性,是因为个体通过语言扮演群体中其他人的角色,从而在自己的行为中意识到他人的存在。

Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.

忘记所有它不会成功的原因,相信它会成功的一个原因。