'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.