Civil Service Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words civil, service and/or affairs:

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)