Masters Quotes

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. (Aesop)
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. View quote
Maxim Gorky
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. View quote
Grover Cleveland
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. View quote
Winston Churchill
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. View quote
Jules Verne
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. (Benjamin Franklin)
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. View quote
Carl Sagan
Farewell, unwashed Russia, Land of slaves, land of masters, And you, blue uniforms, And you, people, devoted to them. Perhaps beyond the wall of the Caucasus, I will hide from your pashas, From their all-seeing eye, From their all-hearing ears. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
What worries you, masters you. View quote
John Locke
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us. View quote
John Chrysostom
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. View quote
John Bradshaw
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickens and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty. (Evelyn Waugh)
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one – that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire. View quote
Ayn Rand
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. View quote
Spider Robinson
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters. View quote
W. H. Auden