Quote by herbert marcuse

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread…

— Juvenal

Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given…

— Suzanne Collins

“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.”

— Howard Thurman

“You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.”

— George R.R. Martin

“we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.”

— Albert Baylis

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.”

— J. M. Coetzee

“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to…

— Petrarch

“It is one thing to act like a servant; it is quite another to be a servant.”

— Richard J. Foster

“the whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor;…

— Virginia Woolf

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Ambitious humans! We seek the glory of being heroes without first the service of being helpers...and find only humiliation.”

— Criss Jami