Quotes on the topic: Servant


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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.


I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.


A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.


Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.


Reason is the servant of instinct.


I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.


When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.


Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.


Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.


In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.


The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.


I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.


If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.


A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.


I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.


Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.


It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.


There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.


Leadership is about being a servant first.


As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.