55 Quotes About Public-service

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Doctor James Rowland Angell has said that 'any program may be regarded as educational (and here we may substitute the words 'a public service') in purpose which attempts to increase knowledge, to stimulate thinking, to teach techniques and methods, to cultivate discernment, appreciation, and taste, or to enrich character by sensitizing emotion and by inspiring socialized ideals that may issue on constructive conduct.

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Power that doesn't help the people, is not power but pandemic.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.