Цитаты из книги To kill a mockingbird

7 июля 2011 г.

if we followed our feelings all the time we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.

интуиция предчувствие

7 июля 2011 г.

"Things are never as bad as they seem.”
&
"...things are always better in the morning"

оптимизм

7 июля 2011 г.

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious — because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe — some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others — some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal — there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

7 июля 2011 г.

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents”

таланты

7 июля 2011 г.

"...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

совесть

7 июля 2011 г.

"I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had"

7 июля 2011 г.

"We generally get the juries we deserve."

суд судьи осуждение

7 июля 2011 г.

“There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves — it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it. I hope it’s not in you children’s time.”

негры национализм рабство толерантность

7 июля 2011 г.

"There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”

“You got it backwards, Dill,” said Jem. “Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”

клоуны смех насмешки

7 июля 2011 г.

"...sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of — oh, of your father.”

библия религиозность вредные привычки секты

7 июля 2011 г.

“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only children weep. Good night.”

детство агрессия

7 июля 2011 г.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

смелость отвага сила духа болезнь

22 декабря 23:28

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents"