Service Quotes - page 73
The OAS made a political decision, not a technical or legal one. This is a report - now I have realized from the recommendations of some leftist brothers and sisters - that the OAS is not in the service of the people of Latin America, less so the social movements. The OAS is at the service of the North American empire.
Evo Morales
He would confidently affirm that the grace of prayerfulness should be more desired than all others by the religious man, and, believing that without it no good could be wrought in the service of God, he would stir up his Brethren unto zeal therefore by all means that he could. For, whether walking or sitting, within doors or without, in toil or at leisure, he was so absorbed in prayer as that he seemed to have devoted thereunto not only his whole heart and body, but also his whole labor and time.
Bonaventure
‘The people' have in fact done everything that is done; they built the houses and roads and railroads and telephones and planes, they organized world‐wide cooperative institutions-the oil companies, the banks-and the postal services, and the militia companies, and the schools-what didn't ‘the people' do? What happens is that, after they do it, The Government takes it. The Government takes the roads, the postal service, the systems of communication, the banks, the markets, the stock exchanges, the insurance companies, the schools, the militia, the building trades, the telegraph and telephones, the radios, after ‘the people' have done all these things for themselves.
Rose Wilder Lane
A policeman is a charlatan who offers, in return for obedience, to protect him (a) from his superiors, (b) from his equals, and (c) from himself. This last service, under democracy, is commonly the most esteemed of them all. In the United States, at least theoretically, it is the only thing that keeps ice-wagon drivers, Y.M.C.A. secretaries, insurance collectors and other such human camels from smoking opium, ruining themselves in the night clubs, and going to Palm Beach with Follies girls.
H. L. Mencken
Assad appears to have decided to purge his government of anyone remotely suspected of sympathizing with the pro-democracy uprising - with his first priority being to reassert control of the armed forces. To hammer that home, he's appearing on state TV in military uniforms in his role as commander-in-chief - his chest often covered with Syria's highest military decorations for bravery, although he's never done military service.
Amir Taheri
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Pope Francis
