Distinguished Public Service

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or service:

“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
—Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)

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