Civil service Quote by Prashant Bhushan

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

— George Mason

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

— Aravind Adiga

India needs honest bureaucrats; most officers in the system are corrupt.

— Jagapathi Babu

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as…

— Amitava Kumar

“As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people.…

— Thomas Sowell

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all…

— Bertie Ahern

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

— Roy Jenkins

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

— Pranab Mukherjee

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomesonly a hired…

— Henry David Thoreau

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a…

— Henry David Thoreau

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that…

— Richard Cobden