Days Quote by Ross Douthat
“The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that 'merit' correlates with talents and deserts.”
![“[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…” quote by Ellen Cushing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1b/ellen-cushing-96117_charity_i-f-you-don-t-feel-or-look-rich-you-don_617644.jpg)
