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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett Charity Finance Helping Others Inspiration Noblesse Oblige Success

[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.

~ Ellen Cushing

Ellen Cushing Charity Class Culture Future Noblesse Oblige Obligation Philanthropy Wealth

Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

~ Christopher Hayes

Christopher Hayes Advancement Class Competition Culture Meritocracy Noblesse Oblige

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or, if feeble or ill-affected, corrupt all the vital parts; whereupon grow diseases, and in the end, death itself.

~ Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes College Higher Education Noblesse Oblige Patriotism

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

~ Robert Fulghum

Robert Fulghum Charity Debt Noblesse Oblige Repay Stranger
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