#servant

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

— Alistair Darling

#finance #goal #make #master #our

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#helps #into #joy #neither #nor

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. ↗

— Billy Graham

#god #his #often #potential #protect

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#execute #laws #made #officers #people

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#either #founded #history #intellectual #intellectuals

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#call #common #common good #example #exhort

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ↗

— George Washington

#dangerous #eloquent #fearful #fire #force

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#becomes #brought #conviction #directed #easily

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

#away #devil #false #lead #people