The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.