Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.