Voluntary Quotes

270 Voluntary quotes by 202 unique authors

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. — Jonathan Sacks
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned… — Mark Skousen
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing… — Steven Spielberg
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly… — Lysander Spooner
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is… — Lysander Spooner
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. — Lincoln Steffens
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything… — Margaret Thatcher
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves… — John Thorn
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism… — Jesse Ventura
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting… — William Wordsworth
Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE — Whoopi Goldberg
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The… — Paulo Coelho
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of… — William James
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but… — Aldous Huxley
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the… — Robert A. Heinlein
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up… — C.S. Lewis
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… — J. G. Ballard
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were… — Alan Watts
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly… — Tove Jansson
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to… — Orson Scott Card

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