Voluntary Quotes
270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors
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When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary…
— Jane McGonigal
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It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for…
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…
— Cass Sunstein
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Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
— Paul Collier
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Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely…
— Jeffrey Tucker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
— William Hazlitt
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The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
— Duane Elgin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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