„Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.“

— William Makepeace Thackeray
„No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.“
— Homér
„A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.“
— Dale Carnegie
„“The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met." "You've met God?" "Certainly. I telephone Him every night.”“
— Haruki Murakami
„Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.“
— Émile Durkheim