Becoming Quote by Pope Paul VI

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…

— Aristotle

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

— Aristotle

“Man cannot relinquish himself or the place in the visible world that belongs to him; he cannot become the slave of things, the slave…

— John Paul II

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

— Henry Miller

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the…

— Rachel Carson

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself?…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over…

— Augustine of Hippo

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he…

— James Allen

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

— Laura Dern

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel