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For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— CS Lewis
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
— Euripides
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
— GK Chesterton
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
— Martin Luther
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
If you don't master money, it's going to master you.
— Tony Robbins
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
— Edmund Burke
There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.
— Norman Vincent Peale