Adam Smith - Noam Chomsky - Edmund Burke - Lao Tzu - William Shakespeare - Desmond Tutu - Horace - Inside the Mind of Leonardo & Peter Capaldi TV - Michelangelo - Rembrandt - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV - Aravind Adiga - Matthew 6:24 - Luke 16:13 - Ephesians 6:5&9 - Colossians 3:22 - Colossians 4:1 - I Timothy 6:1&2 - I Peter 2:18 - Ernest Hemingway - Bram Stoker - Depeche Mode - Robert Tressell - House of Cards TV - Abraham Lincoln -
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations
The masters of mankind are multinational corporations and financial institutions … it helps explain why the state-corporate-complex is indeed a threat to freedom and in fact even survival. Noam Chomsky, lecture State Corporate Complex Toronto 7th April 2011, ‘A Threat to Freedom and Survival’
The people are the masters. Edmund Burke
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
Men at sometime were masters of their fates. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I ii 140, Cassius to Brutus
Do you love me, master? The Tempest 2010 starring Helen Mirren & Felicity Jones & Chris Cooper & Russell Brand & Reeve Carney & Tom Conti & Alan Cumming & Dimon Hounsou & Alfred Molina & Ben Whishaw et al, director Julie Taymor, Ariel
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. Desmond Tutu
Not bound to swear allegiance to any master,
Wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. Horace, Epistles
It’s only when your judgment damns the work you have done that it's likely to be any good. It would be a poor disciple that didn’t try to out-do his master. Inside the Mind of Leonardo starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo
Choose only one master – Nature. Rembrandt
Kira: And who exactly is the master?
Dukat: I am. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e9: Covenant, Kira transported to Empok Nor
We have left the villages, but the masters still own us, body, soul and arse. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger p169
Only a man who is prepared to see his family destroyed – hunted, beaten, and burned alive by the masters – can break out of the coop. That would take no normal human being, but a freak, a pervert of nature. ibid. p176
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love – or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? ibid. p187
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. Ephesians 6:5&9
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. Colossians 3:22
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Colossians 4:1
Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. I Timothy 6:1&2
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. I Peter 2:18
We are all apprentices in a craft where no-one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me. Bram Stoker, Dracula
There’s a new game
We like to play you see
A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog
Get me down on my knees
We call it master and servant
We call it master and servant
It’s a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top
And me underneath
Forget all about equality
Let’s play master and servant
Let’s play master and servant. Depeche Mode, Master and Servant
As he grows older he will have to be content with even less; and all the time he holds his employment at the caprice and by favour of his masters, who regard him merely as a piece of mechanism that enables them to accumulate money – a thing which they are justified in casting aside as soon as it becomes unprofitable. And the working-man must not only be an efficient money-making machine, but he must also be the servile subject of his masters. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
[drunken speech] If only all masters and men would do this they would find that everything would go on all right, there would be more work and less poverty. Let the men do their best for their masters, and the masters do their best for their men, and they would find that that was the true solution of the social problem, and not the silly nonsense that was talked by people what went about with red flags. ibid.
But these were not free: their servile lives were spent in grovelling and cringing and toiling and running about like little dogs at the behest of their numerous masters. ibid.
All they desired was to be left alone so that they might continue to worship and follow those who took advantage of their simplicity, and robbed them of the fruits of their toil; their old leaders, the fools and scoundrels who fed them with words, who had led them into the desolation where they now seemed to be content to grind out treasure for their masters, and to starve when those masters did not find it profitable to employ them. It was as if a flock of foolish sheep placed themselves under the protection of a pack of ravening wolves. ibid.
Come on, man. You gotta get a grip on who your masters are. House of Cards US s1e2: Chapter 2, website hippy to Peter, Netflix 2013
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works II