Servant Quotes - page 2

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. (Edna O'Brien)
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me-I actually took my teachers seriously! View quote
Sinclair Lewis
When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics. View quote
John Danforth
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master. View quote
H. Beam Piper
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him. View quote
Ramakrishna
I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama. View quote
Ramakrishna
The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
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. View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth. View quote
Ramon Llull
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality. View quote
Robert Graves
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant. View quote
John of Salisbury
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. View quote
Jacques Ellul
A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster. (Theodore Roosevelt)
You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. View quote
Agatha Christie
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. View quote
Herbert Hoover
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. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. View quote
Baltasar Gracián