Civil servants Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil servants Equal Masters Mature Servant
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
There are thousands of civil servants. In large part, they are brilliant. They work really hard. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“My dilemma is that of the civil servant. If a civil servant takes an initiative and things go right with it, he cannot, in… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
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… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to persist at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
