Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Here's one who thinks he is the master of others, yet he is more enslaved than they are.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.

Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.

The world is full of people whom no one has put in chains but who bind themselves with frozen thoughts and fears. A man whose mind conforms to the conditioned responses of his daily life is a coward and a slave.

Der Mensch ist frei geboren, und überall ist er in Ketten. Mancher glaubt, er sei der Herr der anderen, und ist trotzdem mehr Sklave als sie.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.

O homem nasceu livre, e em toda parte se encontra sob ferros. De tal modo acredita-se o senhor dos outros, que não deixa de ser mais escravo que eles.

"We are told that we are "born free": untrue. We are born squalling, attached to an umbilical cord, covered in a woman's blood. Whether we become free depends upon the actions of others, upon the structures that enable those actions, upon the values that enliven those structures — and only then upon a flicker of spontaneity and the courage of our own choices."