Civil Servant Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not…
— Jose Mujica
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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…
— John Hume
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In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugene Ionesco
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
— George S. Patton
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
— Doris Lessing
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
— Sargent Shriver
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To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked…
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
— Billy Joel
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I…
— Hanif Kureishi
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NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil…
— Mary Roach
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I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree.…
— Guy Ritchie
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy,…
— Naveen Jain
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Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
— Tom Holt
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When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can…
— Colm Toibin
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I…
— Wallace Shawn
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Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
— Walter Walker
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Money has different names !!! In Church its called (offering), In School its (fee), In marriage it's called (lobola), In divorce (alimony), When you owe…
— Arcine Arciniegas
Who Wrote These Civil Servant Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Civil Servant Quotes as follows: