People aspire only for the fruits of authority; they shirk the responsibility that authority involves. Do not think that this is so only in India. It is the attitude of aspirants all over the World today. Power is sought but the burden that comes with power is not welcomed. The chaos and misery of the World today are the creation of persons who have climbed to positions of authority but do not discharge the responsibilities of those positions. No one is entitled to such position who is unable or unwilling to shoulder the responsibility inherent in it and who does not discharge it sincerely. Whatever their status, however deep their scholarship, however rich they may be, they do not deserve the position they crave for or hold. (SSS Vol.24, p. 135)

Who is entitled to wield authority? Is it the person who has high educational qualifications and feels puffed up by his knowledge? No. Or is it the person who claims that he has all material resources and can use them as he likes? No. No one who is filled with pride and conceit is fit to wield power. It is only the person who is imbued with humility and appears to be not very knowledgeable that is fittest to wield authority. Hanuman is an example of such a person. Although he was endowed with enormous prowess, he appeared as a simple person. This humility enabled him to leap over the ocean. Socrates, who was hailed as the wisest man among the Greeks, always professed that he knew nothing. (SSS Vol.17, p. 22)