Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
John Adams

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Mitt Romney

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce