No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.
When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you__e not standing up to that guy, you__e standing up to the robe that he__ wearing and the role that he__ going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of that role, and not some group of prejudices of his own. So what you__e standing up to is a mythological character. I imagine some kings and queens are the most stupid, absurd, banal people you could run into, probably interested only in horses and women, you know. But you__e not responding to them as personalities, you__e responding to them in their mythological roles. When someone becomes a judge, or President of the United States, the man is no longer that man, he__ the representative of an eternal office; he has to sacrifice his personal desires and even life possibilities to the role that he now signifies.
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When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you__e not standing up to that guy, you__e standing up to the robe that he__ wearing and the role that he__ going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of that role, and not some group of prejudices of his own. So what you__e standing up to is a mythological character. I imagine some kings and queens are the most stupid, absurd, banal people you could run into, probably interested only in horses and women, you know. But you__e not responding to them as personalities, you__e responding to them in their mythological roles. When someone becomes a judge, or President of the United States, the man is no longer that man, he__ the representative of an eternal office; he has to sacrifice his personal desires and even life possibilities to the role that he now signifies.
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