来自《佳人蓓尔第0集》

not have a duty to uphold and create the laws

维护并且立法来促进我们的道德准则
that progress our morality not retard it?

而不是阻碍它的进步吗
If not to protect us from

即使不是为了保护我们不受他人侵害
others then to protect us from ourselves.

也该防止我们自我伤害
Laws that allow us to

允许我们贬低
diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws.

其他任何人的人性的法律都不是法律
They are frameworks for crime.

它们是犯罪的根源
I do not care if you, as an individual,

我不在乎你作为一个个人
are without character or conscience.

是否有人性或是有良知
But a land whose laws sanction, not control

但是如果一个国家的法律鼓励而不是约束
the barbarous among its citizens,

其公民中的野蛮风气
that is a country whose hope is lost.

那这个国家就没希望了