Public Service Quotes

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Senator Collins and Speaker Bowling are two cuts or more above typical politicians. If all politicians modeled their examples, we’d have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.”
― Aristophanes, Plutus

“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare.

Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?”
― Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

“Every reformer is a public servant, but not every public servant is a reformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Lovers and soldiers are the only ones living, rest of society is just dehydrating.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Nutty Community (The Sonnet)

Crazy am I, crazy are you,
When crazy together, we live anew.
Miserable am I, miserable are you,
When miserable together, I find joy in you.
Broken am I, broken are you,
When broken together, we are each other's glue.
Insecure am I, insecure are you,
When insecure together, we find it all untrue.
Disfunctional am I, disfunctional are you,
When disfunctional together, we function well.
Fallen am I, fallen are you,
When we fall together, we'll rise sure as hell.
Let us go against ourselves in defying self-centricity.
You be a nut, I'll be a nut, let's build a nutty community.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Sonnet of Public Service

Every reformer is a public servant,
But not every public servant is a reformer,
For public service isn't taught as life itself,
But as just another job little more secure.
If only education focused on life and love,
Instead of constantly peddling competition,
Perhaps we'd have a world little less bitter,
And we'd have ascension, not abomination.
But there's no use in brooding over history,
What's needed is to realize love as our core.
Education and all be manifestations of love,
If not, it is just another snobbish endeavor.
May service be the goal, role and whole of life,
Instead of being and raising educated lowlife.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“My first and foremost love is society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Love the people, lift the people, people are the way. Not your people, not my people, it's all one people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The difference between a vigilante and a reformer is that a vigilante with their half-baked and insecure notions of justice feels compelled to hide their identity, whereas a reformer has nothing to hide, for a reformer knows, no lasting reform can be brought through anonymity.

If you have something to say, say it, and stand by it with your last breath. Doctors save lives, and they have family, yet they don’t hide behind anonymity. Soldiers and cops defend lives, and they have family, yet they don’t hide behind anonymity. Scientists save the world, and they have family, yet they don’t hide behind anonymity. Then what makes a vigilante so special that they have to keep their identity a secret!

You don’t need a secret identity to serve the
world. You just need to stand up with
accountability against the most distressing
troubles faced by society, and your very name
will turn into an immortal symbol, that will send
a shockwave of courage and inspiration through
countless generations to come.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Bureaucratic apathy is worse than bureaucratic corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Ten apathetic government officials can do more damage to a country, than a hundred crooked ones.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just how untenable it is to starve the public sphere at the very moment we need it most.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“Producers should mantain a thick skin, respectful attitude and patience in order to fulfill the needs of their consumers.”
― Saaif Alam

“In a world full of citizen vain, be a citizen vanguard! There can be no order, unless the citizens stand on guard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 82

I am a soldier, I am a reformer.
What will I do with a long life!
If you wanna bless me with something,
Bless me, O Nature, with courage to die with smile.
Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.
A reformer doesn't know what is a hangover,
Because a reformer is never sober.
Drunkenness of booze wears off in a day,
Drunkenness of sacrifice lasts through millennia.
The selfish drink to seek escape.
The reformer is too free to need such cheap help.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“The only civilized politician in the world is the one with no party allegiance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“This is what my Christmas looks like,
And my Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali 'n Onam.
I don't get to celebrate any of the festivals,
So that the world can, without discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Sacred minds make sacred society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Run for service, not office.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“An activist is always broke,
a philanthropist is always rich.
That's the difference between
service and a publicity stunt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Public service comes with public’s language..”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“If public officers can't handle regional languages, they should choose corporate roles, not public service.”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“I am now public property”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Civil service is the main engine of democracy, we just gotta make it corruption-proof and efficient.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper