Servant Quotes - Page 19

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

  Alben W. Barkley

  House, Lord, Seats

  "Alben Barkley dies during speech, April 30, 1956" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. April 30, 2015.

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• The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

  Pope Pius IV

  Sea, Dominion, Charm

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• 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.

  Carlos Mesa

  Responsibility, Numbers, Bolivia

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• Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Husband, Blessing

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• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  Origen

  Teaching, Angel, Men

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.57, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

  Charles Hermite

  Mathematics, Masters, Masters And Servants

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• The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

  Solomon

  Mean, Men, Littles

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Powerful, Grace, Please

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press

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• In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

  Vivienne Westwood

  Men, Clothes, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  Warren E. Burger

  Reality, Men, Degrees

  Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424, (432), 1971.

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• The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Evil, Balance

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 430, 1836.

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• Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.

  Hilda Solis

  Real, Struggle, Fighting

  "Immigrant's daughter Solis to lead Labor Dept". International Business Times, December 19, 2008.

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• Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

  H. Beam Piper

  Powerful, Rich, Poor

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.

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• The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Character, Exercise

  William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.35

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• Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

  Kevin Leman

  Sex, Sleep, Kids

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.57, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

  Caedmon

  Children, Servant Of God, Charity

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• When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

  John C. Danforth

  Personal Opinions, Vests, Opinion

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 213, September 19, 2006.

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• Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Son, Rose, Intellectual

  "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.

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• In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, People, Vision

  "His Rhetoric, Our Reality". original.antiwar.com. January 26, 2005.

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• Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Men, Feelings, Way

  Indian Journal of Social Development: An International Journal, Volume 7, 2007.

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• All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.

  Epifanio de los Santos

  Reading, Want, Found

  "Filipinos in History, Vol. 2" by National Historical Institute of the Philippines, 1989.

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• The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Internet, Slave

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system

  Charles A. Beard

  Civilization, Psychology, Directors

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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