People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.