“The police... should never go on strike. Theirs was an essential service and they should render that service, irrespective of their pay. There were several other effective and honourable means of getting grievances redressed.”
In response to representatives of policemen who met him during a police strike in Gaya on March 24, 1947, https://web.archive.org/web/20210807112446/https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/no-fundamental-right-to-strike/article35732405.ece <br class="br">Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
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Mahatma Gandhi238
pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948Related quotes
“I only cherished service to people. There should not be greed even in service.”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
Source: Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
“Faith does not mean paying lip service. Faith requires commitment.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Prime Minister's Questions (1 December 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104755 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
“Civil servants should keep out of politics and politics should be kept out of the civil service”
Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
House of Commons speech 1875 Thomson page 233
“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
No known source; it appears to be a paraphrase of the last sentence of Einstein's "An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man". Earliest known attribution is in the Washingon Afro-American, AFRO Magazine Section, Sept 21, 1954, p. 2 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I8slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6_QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4494,1273325 <br class="br">Disputed
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
from William Manchester's "American Caesar".
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
Peter Dicken (1938) British geographer
Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, The Financial Services Industries, p. 469