Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may… — George Santayana
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where… — Robertson Davies
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their… — Paul Hawken
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and… — David Limbaugh
Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable… — Nicholas Negroponte
You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no… — Mike Lee
No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win. — John Stossel
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. — Bob Black
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have… — Earl Blumenauer
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this… — Milton Babbitt
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. — Thomas Bulfinch
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the… — Diana DeGette
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these… — Harry Browne
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. — Bill McKibben
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. — John M. McHugh
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? — Walter Dean Myers
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and… — Samuel Johnson
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with… — Mary Oliver
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts

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