Compulsory Quote by Martin Gilbert

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main…

— Luke Mitchell

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted,…

— Isabel Paterson

You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and…

— Clarence Francis

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or…

— Adrienne Rich

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

— Beth Moore

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

— Leo Tolstoy

Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship.…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

— Anonymous

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary…

— Chen Shui-bian

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other…

— Patricia Hewitt

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16,…

— George Shearing

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

— Frank Van Dun

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate…

— Salman Rushdie