Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the… — Kristie Phillips Copy Share Image
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we… — Jackie Stewart Copy Share Image
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your… — Prince Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of.… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image