Bears Quote by D.E. Stevenson

Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring…

— Edward S. Curtis

“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more…

— David duChemin

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I…

— Harry Belafonte

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

— Samuel Johnson

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself…

— Anonymous

Love is voluntary. We love by choice, not demand.

— Anonymous

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without…

— Tim Kreider

“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often…

— Laurie Matthew

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

— Dorothy Day