Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

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
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. — John Tillotson
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming. — David Hawkins
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which… — Brigham Young
I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in… — Gerald R. Ford
The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to… — Gerald R. Ford
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication… — Mahatma Gandhi
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free… — Louis D. Brandeis
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. — Bill Frist
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. — Henry Hazlitt
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any… — Alexander Herzen
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open… — Christopher Lasch
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be… — Blaise Pascal
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined… — Ron Paul
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can… — Donald Rumsfeld
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary… — Bertrand Russell

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