Leo Tolstoy. Sunday (№ 241399)

Became all this because, thought Nekhludoff that all these people - governors, overseers, police officer, policemen - consider that there are such provisions in which the human relationship with the person doesn't have. After all, these people - and Maslennikov, and the caretaker, and guard, all of them, if they were not governors, caretakers, officers, or twenty times I would think about whether sending people in such heat and so much, twenty times as expensive and would have stopped seeing that man weakens, gasps, brought him out of the crowd, brought him into the shade, would have given water, allowed to relax and, when the accident happened, would have showed compassion. They didn't even bothered to do it to others just because they saw before them not the people and their responsibilities towards them, and the service and its requirements which they placed above the demands of human relations. In all, thought Nekhludoff. - If you can admit that whatever is more important than the feelings of humanity, at least for one hour, and even in some one exceptional case, there is no crime that one could not do with people not considering themselves to blame.