Voluntarily Quotes
165 Voluntarily quotes by 146 unique authors
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Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create…
— Charles W. Pickering
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Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right…
— Newt Gingrich
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out…
— Garry Kasparov
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Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
— James F. Byrnes
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and…
— Jim Gerlach
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It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline…
— Antonio Gramsci
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your…
— Joe Lieberman
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No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the…
— Walt Disney
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To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
— Chrissie Wellington
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When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
— Clive Thompson
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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
— Jonathan Franzen
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The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why…
— Milton Friedman
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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as…
— Daniel Goleman
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I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
— Tom Hanks
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but…
— Steven Pinker
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