hierarchy [Theme] Page 1

On the sides of the hall, semblances of lodges were knocked together from spruce boards, and the middle was occupied by a stalls with standing places for poor citizens, shopkeepers, judicial scribes, apprentices, schoolboys, lackeys and other rabble.

Let me tell you, Your Grace, that in this manner you will not achieve anything, ”Uncle Bilo declared, giving the most humble bow, as befits a person standing at the very last steps of the social ladder when he dares to contradict a person of high rank.

The hall was the best suited for a theatrical performance - its oblong shape made it possible to set up a stage at one end, and in the free space to place armchairs, chairs, stools and benches in rows, according to the rank of the audience and the respect that should be shown to them.

“He’s not my master,” said the little one in a red shirt.

A person should not be ashamed of his origin.

If a nobleman knows no boundaries in his personal life, if he can be made into a king or a royal figure, then he can appear everywhere with calm confidence in front of his own kind, he can move forward everywhere, while a burgher is best suited for a clear, silent consciousness of the borderline , he is supposed to.

This Village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives or sleeps here actually lives and sleeps in the Castle. And no one is allowed to do this without the Count's permission.

But he’s nothing, it’s a pity to look at his position. Yes, he is a land surveyor, it may mean something, it turns out, he learned something, but if this knowledge cannot be applied in any way, it means that he is still nothing. However, he puts demands without any hesitation, and although he does not put these demands directly, it is immediately obvious that he has some demands, and this annoys everyone.

K. saw the complete futility of his efforts. Besides him, orders were made, both favorable and unfavorable, and even in the most favorable there was an unfavorable core, in every case everything passed by him, and he himself was at a too low level to intervene in the matter, to make others shut up, and to hear himself.

Behind the articles of the laws is hidden the crudest lawlessness, built on mutual responsibility, behind equality and justice are hidden eternal caste and hierarchy, behind the holy truth is a lie, and that in general this person, for and for whose sake we are doing everything, is the most unnecessary, interfering, subject to cruelty. suppressing creature.

Can the grave sins of individual members of the Church, even if they belong to the hierarchy, be called the sins of the Church? These are not the sins of the Church, but their sins before the Church.

When it comes to geniuses, it's ridiculous to puzzle yourself over who is higher and who is lower.

We all like a world where beings are developed enough to make a strict social hierarchy feel like equality. We all want a world where you can genuinely respect your neighbor because your neighbor deserves it. He does not claim your respect with empty stink, when he does not even deserve a stake, and he is capable of warmth, is not afraid of warmth and is open to you as you are open to him. We all want a world inhabited by worthy creatures. Only I can't see how a division by nationality can lead to this. And if you will allow me, I believe that the time when you set laws only for your kingdom is far in the past. Even in the thirteenth century, this was no longer the case. Today, when we have transatlantic telephones, airplanes, radio, cinema, you have to set moral laws for humanity as a whole. The Fuehrer is actively working with Japan. The Japanese are also nationalists. They, too, are convinced that the superior race should be no more than sixty meters tall, moon-faced, narrow-eyed and black with hair, that coal. Blacks say, you're very good for white. Everyone is Nazis and racists. Everyone is every human being, because every wader will scream that his swamp is not the only one not a swamp. If you want to be above it all, you have to be different from them. They have to measure themselves by you, they won't do it if you're the same wader who just as hysterically praises his swamp.

Question: Since man can build himself an illusion about the extent of their rights, what could let him know their limit?
Answer: This is the limit of the rights which he recognizes in his neighbor towards himself under similar circumstances and on a reciprocal basis.
Question: But if each attributes to himself the rights of your neighbor, then what becomes of the obedience to superiors? Isn't anarchy at all levels?
Answer: some Natural rights for all people, from the least to the greatest. God did not make some of them clean more dust than others; and all are equal before Him. Law of the eternal. The same that is established by a person perish this institutions. Otherwise everyone quite feels his strength or weakness, and will always be to nourish reverence to the one who is worthy of her virtue or wisdom. It is very important to point this out to those who regard themselves as superiors over others, aware of their responsibilities in order to earn this respect. Subordination will not be affected when the power will be transferred to wisdom.