managers-in-general

Updated: June 21, 2025

It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society. Every man and woman in society has one big duty.

William Graham Sumner - What Social Classes Owe to Each Other