Compulsory Quotes

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that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god. — E E Cummings
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. — Christopher Hitchens
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. — Abbie Hoffman
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. — Garrison Keillor
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. — Prince
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect… — Adrienne Rich
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children… — Dan Savage
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"… — P.J. O'Rourke
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you… — Tom Stoppard
13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight… — Zadie Smith
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. — Jules Verne
There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies… — Dawn French
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. — Terry Pratchett
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to… — Immanuel Kant
Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! — Frank Van Dun

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