Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Indian Leader

Joyce Meyer

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

American Author

Woodrow Wilson

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

American President

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Leader

Cesar Chavez

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

American Activist

Aesop

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Greek Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

American Journalist

Maria Montessori

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Italian Educator

Donald Rumsfeld

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

American Politician

Billy Graham

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

American Clergyman

Commonly, 'servant' implies a paid role offering daily help in someone's home.

Household Role

'Servant' can sound old-fashioned; terms like 'helper' or 'aide' are more modern alternatives.

Outdated Term

Using 'servant' can imply a social hierarchy, often seen as less respectful today.

Social Implications

'Servant' can describe deep dedication, not just a job position.

Metaphorical Use

Being called a 'servant' in this sense is usually a compliment, implying honor and commitment.

Exemplar Dedication

In legal contexts, 'servant' highlights the relationship between employer and employee.

Legal Relationship

A 'servant' in legal talk might refer to an official employment status, focusing on service.

Lawful Employment

In religious contexts, a 'servant' shows reverence and modesty before the divine.

Religious Humility

'Servant of God' is a term of endearment and respect in many religious communities.

Spiritual Connotation

 Lots of countries are building lots more affordable housing and it's actually helping to change some of the local tensions. So these answers emerge not from pie-in-the-sky thinking, but from the real experience of real countries. And there are real policymakers and journalists and civil servants who have done these things.

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 The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.

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 Roman sexual mores for one thing it doesn't have a sense of privacy we think that privacy is the most important thing about sexual activity but here we have a bedroom servant right in the corner on the left-hand side looking out at us and attending to the couple

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 Decarbonizing your portfolio helps no one but your conscience. You must decarbonize your product. If you're a politician or a civil servant, you need to look at your favorite climate policy and How is it helping to decarbonize fossil fuels?

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 I grew up as a young kid in a nursery, my parents were servants, and they started a little nursery to help put me through school, that's the way I saw it. They were immigrants and they grew plants. They were attracted to landscaping,

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 had expanded his sphere of influence to include the courts of Europe in st. Petersburg the Tsar and his family lived in a breathtaking palace with a thousand rooms hundreds of servants attended their every whim and it seemed like a

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 evil but lately we've come to realize that it's real if they weren't doing that what other opportunity exists what are they going to do you go to university you become some civil servant well if your lot in life to survive on

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 who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.

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 where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of local people who have a dream to become a better person.

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 literally loaf maid, or, more figuratively, kneader of bread. As early as the ninth century, hlafdige was the name for a mistress of servants,

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