Civil Servant Quotes
On family sacrifice, career safety, and public duty.
These quotes describe civil service through personal stories: a father whose steady job still meant tight budgets, and a mother urging a safer government career over the uncertainty of filmmaking. See related reflections on the Dad quotes page.
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man...
My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.
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My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my...
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation...
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