Compulsory Quotes

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For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion… — Carol Bellamy
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no… — John Cornyn
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically… — John Taylor Gatto
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. — Plato
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This… — Dallin H. Oaks
I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to… — Margaret Atwood
We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide… — Vladimir Putin
Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor. — Lindsey Davis
A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. — M. Stanton Evans
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen… — Thomas Beecham
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P.J. O'Rourke
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. — Daniel D. Palmer
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert H. Jackson
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."… — Michio Kaku
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
Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full… — Marie Brennan
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses,… — Henning Mankell
The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when… — David

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