Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law… — R.J. Rushdoony
Gender, race, ethnicity – these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is – involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It’s… — Scott Lively
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe… — Kate Christensen
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and… — Satoshi Kanazawa
The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action… — William Beveridge
In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary,… — Unknown Author
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. — William Hazlitt
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. — Duane Elgin
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth. — Hugh B. Brown
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can… — Katherine Dunn
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them. — Lev S. Vygotsky
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary. — Lyndon B. Johnson
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor… — Socrates
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
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
Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. — Ben Shapiro
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand
Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act. — John C. Maxwell
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. — Nicholas Ling
In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C. I. Scofield
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the… — Murray Rothbard
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose,… — William Hazlitt
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not… — Fulton J. Sheen

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