George Herbert Quotes
Service without reward is punishment.
Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc. T. Garthwait, 1651.
There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
This quotation is very important because it helps readers to understand the problem that the Native Americans have had dealing with land treaties and transactions and the difficulty many Native Americans have had with the concept of paid jobs and working for hire—hence being very successful in a European style capitalistic economy.
This was an argument for paying public employees.
She probably did not originate this quotation but she appears to be the first politician to use the phrase which has become so common.
George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He served in the Parliament of England in 1624 and briefly in 1625.
