The British civil service … is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain — Honor Blackman
When I wake up on a monday morning and I realise I don’t have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I’ve won. — Paul Merton
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield
When the business interests… pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883 — Carroll Quigley
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it — Arthur Capper
The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting — John Sparkman
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3g cell phone service or a netflix account. — Michelle Marie Maglalang
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench — John Ralston Saul
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint… Civilization , — Mahatma Gandhi
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek — Karl Marx
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Maybe the answer to selective service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them — Bill Vaughan