Serves Quotes

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The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon… — Ludwig von Mises
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. — Ambrose Bierce
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown:… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. — Learned Hand
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination… — John F. Kennedy
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. — Sigmund Freud
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive â€” a… — Ayn Rand
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living. — Albert Einstein
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created… — Gilbert Highet
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,… — Neil Postman
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part… — Mark Strand
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that… — Guy Finley
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20… — Louise Penny

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