Public Service Quotes

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Senator Collins and Speaker Bowling are two cuts or more above typical politicians. If all politicians modeled their examples, we’d have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“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.”
― Aristophanes, Plutus

“The coin of the realm for such professional people was not money, but the respect and admiration that the public held for people who were devoted to their education and their careers and allowed them to serve the public.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

“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.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“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?”
― Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

“Winning an election isn’t about how many people you pay to vote for you, it’s about how many hearts choose you because they believe in you.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“Bureaucratic apathy is worse than bureaucratic corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Ten apathetic government officials can do more damage to a country, than a hundred crooked ones.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just how untenable it is to starve the public sphere at the very moment we need it most.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“Producers should mantain a thick skin, respectful attitude and patience in order to fulfill the needs of their consumers.”
― Saaif Alam

“In a world full of citizen vain, be a citizen vanguard! There can be no order, unless the citizens stand on guard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 82

I am a soldier, I am a reformer.
What will I do with a long life!
If you wanna bless me with something,
Bless me, O Nature, with courage to die with smile.
Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.
A reformer doesn't know what is a hangover,
Because a reformer is never sober.
Drunkenness of booze wears off in a day,
Drunkenness of sacrifice lasts through millennia.
The selfish drink to seek escape.
The reformer is too free to need such cheap help.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“The only civilized politician in the world is the one with no party allegiance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“This is what my Christmas looks like,
And my Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali 'n Onam.
I don't get to celebrate any of the festivals,
So that the world can, without discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Sacred minds make sacred society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Run for service, not office.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“An activist is always broke,
a philanthropist is always rich.
That's the difference between
service and a publicity stunt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Public service comes with public’s language..”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“If public officers can't handle regional languages, they should choose corporate roles, not public service.”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“I am now public property”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Civil service is the main engine of democracy, we just gotta make it corruption-proof and efficient.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The meaning of office is service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“We see politics as a service to the public, especially where one has a mission to set a new agenda that reflects the changing nature of our society and economy.

We cannot therefore maintain the same rhetoric with old agendas that increasingly becoming irrelevant.”
― General Henry Tumukunde

“Institutions exist for people. They are not an end in themselves.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“The purpose of a government is not to rule the people, but to serve them.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“The true victory in an election isn’t bought with money; it’s earned through the trust and support of the people.”
― Ayoub Imilouane