Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique… — Milton Friedman
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense… — Milton Friedman
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can… — Milton Friedman
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and… — Ronald Reagan
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. — Seneca the Younger
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis. — Llewellyn Rockwell
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person… — Richard John Neuhaus
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that… — George Whitefield
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it. — Samuel Johnson
[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from… — Yitzhak Rabin
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Unknown Author
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military… — Chen Shui-bian
We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have… — DeForest Soaries
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… — William James
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary… — James Madison
Philanthropy should be voluntary. — Bill Gates

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