Service is work people do for others. Service in exchange for money is known as trade.

Quotes

• Everything in our modern substitutes for religion—whether Baconian or Rousseauistic—will be found to converge upon the idea of service. The crucial question is whether one is safe in assuming that the immense machinery of power that has resulted from activity of the utilitarian type can be made, on anything like present lines, to serve disinterested ends; whether it will not rather minister to the egoistic aims either of national groups or of individuals.
  • Irving Babbitt, "What I Believe" (1930), Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings (1981), pp. 7-8

• We are his,
  To serve him nobly in the common cause,
  True to the death, but not to be his slaves.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book V, line 340.

• A master is embarrassed before his servant; a servant before his master. Only in the presence of his equals is a man entirely at his ease.
  • Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Что делать? (1863, What is to be Done?), tr. Nathan Haskell Dole (1886), p. 376.

Господин стеснен при слуге, слуга стеснен перед господином; только с равным себе вполне свободен человек.

• The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.
  • Jesus as reported in Matthew 20:25-27.

• Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Matthew 6:19–21,24 (KJV)

• A servant is the true reflection of his master.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, in the play The Lady Demands Satisfaction, (2018)

• Servant of God, well done.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 29.

• Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
  To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 3, line 69.

• I am an ass, indeed, you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene 4, line 29.

• Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
  I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
  Have left me naked to mine enemies.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 455.

• We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 1, line 43.

• My heart is ever at your service.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 76.

• The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 6, line 31.

• You know that love
  Will creep in service where it cannot go.
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act IV, scene 2, line 19.

• Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
  • John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, Washington D.C. (20 January 1961)

• Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard.
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • nytimes.com

See also

• Duty
• Protestant work ethic

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