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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I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

我小时候喜欢解开锁链。我的手指又细又忙,我从未放弃过。也许我的注意力集中有精神方面的原因,但就像我的许多精神损伤一样,这对每个人都有好处。

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

从理论上讲,不受限制地发展权力和对其他国家发动战争的权利是反社会的,而且是双重危险的,因为国家作为一个集体实体代表着低的道德和智力水平。

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

即使一个罪犯没有法律形式的惩罚也比他逃跑更危险。

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

我的父母抚养我长大,让我相信你有道义上的责任去拯救世界。

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

归根结底,没有任何种族隔离主义方案能够经受住一个简单理念的力量:法律下的平等。

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

我宁愿整天都很忙,而当你为别人工作时,你还不够忙。