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“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Source: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

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Author:Aristotle

“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”

“Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.”

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Author:Lewis Henry Morgan

“It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.”

“The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

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Book:The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction

Source: The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction