The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  • -- Byron White 拜伦·怀特

法律总是建立在道德观念的基础上,如果所有代表道德选择的法律都要根据正当程序条款被废除,法庭将会非常忙碌。

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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来,继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫,因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

目前的法律有一个程序来确定病人是否处于持续性植物人状态,政客们怎么想都不应该成为问题。

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

在社会事务中,毫无意义的习俗不仅是礼仪的蜜蜂蜇人之痛,也是道德秩序的毒蛇咬人之痛。

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

可惜的是,所有知道如何治理这个国家的人都在忙着开出租车或理发。

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

十诫作为社会赖以存在的道德基础,从未被取代。

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

生活在法律之外,你必须诚实。