Quotes about Servants

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Aesop

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Ayn Rand

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

The safest course for all of us as public officials is simply to throw all the money in a sack. Or in the way of one servant in the Biblical parable of the talents, bury the money in the ground rather than accept any risk. The servant's business plan proved reliable but ineffective.

Dave Freudenthal

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

John Faulkner

If you have Channel One, your kids are indentured servants to the company.

Jim Metrock

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

I think the saddest part of all of this is there is not one mention of any type of accountability from their political masters, ... They are in this mode of blaming it on the civil servants.

Gary Lunn

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

I hope that a public discussion can now begin about how elected public servants can avoid letting themselves be corrupted by power.

Lars Leijonborg

I've decided that I will investigate the complaint. If civil servants feel that this is the new standard now, that if they provide information that may be borderline, they might be called upon to resign or be fired as a result.

Bernard Richard

It's to help them be better men, ... To be stronger in their beliefs and to be servants to their families and their communities.

Promise Keepers

The decision to suspend them was taken in line with the disciplinary code of conduct and procedure for public servants.

Matshube Mfoloe

It's not exclusive to movie productions. These are hard-working, dedicated public servants who are entitled to overtime pay when it's available.

Joe Pesaturo

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Gerald F. Lieberman

All the transactions were made in accordance to the Public Construction Committee's regulations. If a man's integrity is compromised by following orders, then how should public servants behave in the future?

Pasuya Yao

Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid servants, even chimney sweeps and old clothes women dabbled in tulips.

Charles Mackay

If you look at the list what you see is civil servants taking the fall. Politicians, as in all other corruption scandals, are left untouched. These people had a role to play but they surely can't have been the only ones involved. There were people involved in facilitating the money coming out of the treasury, and people involved in the political cover-up.

Mwalimu Mati

Young people's schedules are challenging. We're taking it to the customers instead of having them come to the servants.

Brian Black

Courts have often been taken as branches of the government and judges viewed as civil servants who have to follow orders from superiors.

Xiao Yang

I think that, as public servants, we all have to be mindful of these risks.

Craig Schwall

Eric Holder was one of the most honorable, most effective public servants in memory. He had only the most fleeting connection with the Rich pardon and any suggestion that he did something deliberately wrong in connection with this is partisan slander that is completely belied by the facts.

Reid Weingarten

The fact that public servants who have seriously violated their duties to the public would be rewarded by a lifetime pension seems grossly unfair to average citizens.

Chellie Pingree

Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Clay Johnson

We have made arrangements to fulfill food, shelter, education and health requirements for the convenience of the government servants.

Kyaw Hsan

The ratio is lower than the world's average, but the number of civil servants in China is too large compared with the country's economic output.

Wang Jian

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jon Corzine

Firefighters are on the front lines - working every day to make our city safe. They are among the most valued public servants in the city, and I look forward to working with them to make our city safer.

David Pepper

We have always placed the people's business ahead of all else. This is our duty as public servants, and the American people deserve no less, ... Our work here at the White House is of critical importance, and the president expects everyone to work hard to advance the optimistic agenda he has laid out to ensure peace and prosperity for future generations.

Andy Card

Beekeepers are public servants in a way, and people don't realize it, ... Without bees, there would be a lot less inadvertent pollination. This is just another form of agriculture, and a lot of people don't realize that, either.

John Casey

In a lot of ways, the standard of living for servants was a lot higher than they would have had somewhere else.

Darren Poupore