Voluntary Quotes

“Hiding your true nature is a kind of voluntary death.”

— John Michael Curlovich

“we are all voluntary members of a concentration camp.”

— Charles Bukowski

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

— John C. Maxwell

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

— Nicholas Ling

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

— John Updike

Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

— Nicholas Ling

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

— Seneca

Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…

— Cass Sunstein

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

— Hudson Taylor

“When does the ‘voluntary’ part (of the Self) arise? It is when one attains the awareness of [the answer to], ‘Who am…

— Dada Bhagwan

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

— Ron Paul

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

— D.E. Stevenson

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

— Bill McKibben

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

— Shami Chakrabarti

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

— Ayn Rand

I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis.…

— Roger Ver

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I…

— Michael Molinos

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by…

— Benjamin Tucker

“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it…

— Tim Kreider

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing…

— Lysander Spooner

What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where…

— John Mackey

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I…

— Ben Shapiro

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

— Anonymous

We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of…

— Jenny Shipley

I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I…

— Stephen Graham

Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I…

— Karen Traviss

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate…

— Mary Oliver

Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs…

— Marshall Herskovitz

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

— Laurie Matthew

“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in…

— Laurie Matthew

“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and…

— Laurie Matthew

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

— Plato

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

— Seneca the Younger

“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”

— Lincoln Steffens

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

— Bill Gates

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

— Samuel Johnson