#servant

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

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. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#earth #failure #forgets #god #his

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

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

— Claudio Hummes

#must #poor #priority #servant #solidarity

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

— James M. Barrie

#equal #equality #hall #his #lordship

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faithfully #his #law #limits #national

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

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#any #bestow #care #cost #good

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computer #going #guide #more #more and more

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew