“It is only necessary that these people should be governors , inspectors , policemen ; that they should be fully convinced that there is a kind of business , called government service , which allows men to treat other men as things , without human brotherly relations with them , and also that these people should be so linked together by this government service that the responsibility for the results of their actions should not fall on any one of them separately .”
“‘ Perhaps these governors , inspectors , policemen , are needed , but it is terrible to see men deprived of the chief human attribute , that of love and sympathy for one another . The thing is , ’ he continued , ‘ that these people consider lawful what is not lawful , and do not consider the eternal , immutable law , written in the hearts of men by God , as law .”
Extracts from “Resurrection” by Leo Tolstoy.
Times and circumstances don’t change, do they? The divisive politics in many countries now, especially the UK and the USA, the massive difference between the haves and the have nots of society.
As a comparison with times gone by I’ve been reading Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy written back in 1899. His character’s journey of enlightenment from a wealthy prince who serves on a jury and recognizes the defendant as a woman who he wronged as a young guy. He…
