Voluntarily Quotes

165 Voluntarily quotes by 146 unique authors

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan… — Ted Rall
The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's… — Gary North
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up… — Whittaker Chambers
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. — John F. Kennedy
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which… — William James
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him? — St. Catherine of Siena
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering… — Jeffrey Rosen
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born… — Ronald Reagan
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of… — Thomas Sowell
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a… — Charley Reese
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily. — P.J. O'Rourke
No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So… — Spencer W. Kimball
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. — Aesop
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. — Malcolm X
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted… — Leon Trotsky
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all. — Mary Esther Harding

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