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There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone. — F. Lee Barham

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. — George Edward Woodberry

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory. — Murray Gell-Mann

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. — Jules Verne

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture. — David Porush

Corruption is never compulsory. — Sheldon Vanauken

Everything not forbidden is compulsory — T.H. White

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. — Mariella Frostrup

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor. — Lindsey Davis

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. — John Taylor Gatto

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it. — Tony Blair

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation. — P. J. O'Rourke

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. — Sebastian Horsley

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. — M. Stanton Evans

The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education. — Peter O. Gray

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. — Roger Crawford

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

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Liberals don't care what you do so long as it's compulsory. — William F. Buckley Jr.

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. — Robert Godden

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. — Plato

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking. — Ruby Wax

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. — Garrison Keillor

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to. — William S. Burroughs

All that is 'free of cost' is compulsory (farajeeyat). — Dada Bhagwan

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! — Frank Van Dun

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. — Christopher Hitchens

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi

(The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.") — Isaac Asimov

Corruption never has been compulsory. — Anthony Eden

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory. — Arsene Wenger

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig Von Mises

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. — Edward Abbey

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. — Abbie Hoffman

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15. — Victoria Beckham

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. — Alexander Cockburn

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. — Anton Chekhov

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously. — Rachel Tucker

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming

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

Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen. — Tony Abbott

Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory. — Ron Atkinson

That strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god. — E. E. Cummings

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice. — Kristie Phillips

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. — Charles Albert Gobat

We are entering the age of the infinite examination and of compulsory objectification. — Michel Foucault

Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education. — John Cage

The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*. — John Wilmot

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. — Daniel D. Palmer

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. — Terry Pratchett

The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy — Francois Mauriac

But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. — Saul Bellow