#servant

Self-justification is a treacherous servant. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#treacherous

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#blind #deaf #master #servant #sometimes

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#become #master #order #politician #poses

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#master #servant #technology #useful

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#civil servant #married #red #servant #you

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#called #find #good #hard #politicians

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing. ↗

— Christopher Love

#blessed #blessed be #filled #god #hast