East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger 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
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
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
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive… — E. F. Benson 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
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
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it,… — Harry Burns 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
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image