Voluntarily Quotes
165 Voluntarily quotes by 146 unique authors
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For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve…
— Ron Wyden
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The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we…
— Robert H. Jackson
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to…
— Dalai Lama
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The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a…
— Samuel Adams
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If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in…
— Henry W. Kendall
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Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services,…
— Karl Hess
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Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,…
— Stanley Krippner
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The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.
— Felix Morley
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What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately…
— Elinor Ostrom
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If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it…
— Mancur Olson
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The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the…
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.
— Billy Bishop
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Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately.…
— Stephen I of Hungary
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History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges…
— Dan Meyer
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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself…
— Johann Most
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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be…
— Edward Bernays
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