Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. (Dag Hammarskjöld)

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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