Why I am not a Civil Servant Quotes

“Civil servants try to inflate the importance of what they do, but it just does not have the kind of urgency that is imposed by the requirements of fighting a battle.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“the civil servants for all their fine words about neutrality and independence are only as good as they are allowed to be by the politicians.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“The real purpose of the elite in an autocracy remains the perpetuation of autocratic rule,”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“in a democracy, a civil servant is not expected to bear rule, he is only an agent of the state, whose task it is to translate into action the programmes and policies of the state.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“The moral is that those who come into possession of real power, are loath to let go of it, and the initial benevolent impulse of their regime is soon replaced by a dead conservatism, where every stratagem is used and every Machiavellian expedient tried out to perpetuate their rule.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“When Lord Roberts said that even the newest British subaltern was superior to any native officer and could not be placed under his command, he was speaking for an entire generation brought up on the myth of British racial superiority.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“As we can not do without a large native army in India, our main object is to make that army safe; and next to the grand counterpoise of a sufficient European force, comes a counterpoise of natives against natives." The committee goes on to observe that, "Different races mixed together do not long preserve their distinctiveness: their corners and angles and prejudices get rubbed off, till at last they assimilate." To prevent this the system of local recruitment based on caste was evolved and regiments of Dogras, Sikhs, Rajputs, etc., were created as mutually exclusive units which could never, it was, hoped, make common cause on any national issue.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“Sir John Lawrence, who may be taken as the archetype of the enlightened British administrator in India, was the head of the Punjab committee which was appointed in 1858 to study the military problems that had led to the great revolt.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“The achievements of British civil servants were not made as civil servants but as rulers.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“prestige which the civil service still enjoys in India, in spite of being a morally defunct organization.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“elitist bureaucracies, despite their facade of benevolence, exist, not for the welfare of the governed, but to perpetuate despotic rule.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“Our first maxim was that elitist bureaucracies exist, not for the benefit of those they govern, but to perpetuate the government of a despotic ruler or an alien conqueror.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“Moral precepts can be inculcated by a process of education and not by any other means. Hence the central place assigned to education in the Confucian canon.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant

“even the mandarins who man the higher echelons of the civil service are simply managers, whose watchword is likely to be efficiency rather than justice and order.”
― Ajay Singh Yadav, Why I am not a Civil Servant