Profit is a signal that valuable services are being…

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services…

— Ben Silbermann

Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...

— Llewellyn Rockwell

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself…

— Anonymous

Love is voluntary. We love by choice, not demand.

— Anonymous

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without…

— Tim Kreider

“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often…

— Laurie Matthew

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

— Dorothy Day

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt

“Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

— Harry Browne