Firsts Quote by Orison Swett Marden

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man chooses...a slave obeys.”

— Andrew Ryan

A free man chooses, a slave obeys

— Andrew Ryan

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

— Swami Vivekananda

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

— Henry Clarke Wright

A real man is a slave of beneficiency.

— Meekness Tapera

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

— Mina Loy

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

— Anonymous

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

— Horace

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!

— Anonymous

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

— Hans Morgenthau