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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

— Zhang Yimou

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

— John Stuart Mill

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

— Orison Swett Marden

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

— John F. Kennedy

'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

— Ida Lupino

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

— William Godwin

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

— Thomas Aquinas

✗Opposing Perspectives

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle