#service

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love they neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#love-thy-neighbor #service #love

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122) ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#civilization #consent #contract-for-service #government #politics

Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might. ↗

— Laurie Frankel

#money

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure what I have received. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#respect #service #life

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#ceos #corporations #delusion #inequality #service

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#here #others #pay #rent #room

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#departments #each #emergency #essential #fire

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#commensurate #costs #differentiation #earn #fly

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? ↗

— Abigail Adams

#mankind #ourselves #out #serve #service