Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long… — Joseph Campbell
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession.… — Ammon Hennacy
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily… — Ammon Hennacy
I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but… — Eva Hart
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth,… — Bryan Fischer
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services,… — Karl Hess
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness… — Robert Dale Owen
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson
I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the gym.… — Barbara Holland
I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through… — Unknown Author
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is… — Ken Schoolland
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a… — Frederic Farrar
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. — Dorothy Day
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked… — Robert Higgs
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… — Erich Fromm
A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be… — Bob Benson
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades… — Kofi Annan
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the… — Edward S. Curtis
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 participation. — Jane McGonigal
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
Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated… — Cass Sunstein
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
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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