Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Ward No. 6 (№ 4913)

People having office, business attitude to other people's suffering, such as judges, police, doctors, over time, force of habit, are hardened to such an extent that I would like, but can't treat their customers differently, as formally; from this side they are no different from the guy who on the margins of the cuts of sheep and calves, and does not notice blood.