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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. — Aesop

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly. — Chrissie Wellington

We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time. — Calvin Miller

I could get used to anything-that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. — Ernst Mach

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. — George W. Bush

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily. — Rita Rudner

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. — James F. Byrnes

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but ... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. — Martin Luther King Jr.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. — Murray Walker

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. — Jonathan Franzen

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place. — Billy Graham

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily. — Felix Morley

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. — Sam Neill

We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power. — Lawren Leo

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

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size - and that, in a way, became my theme. — Ronald Reagan

Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on — Adam Johnson

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. — Louis Kronenberger

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him. — C.S. Lewis

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily. — P. J. O'Rourke

Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames. — Billy Bishop

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska. — Poe Ballantine

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived. — Susan Juby

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't. — Criss Jami

Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely ... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. — John F. Kennedy

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it. — Christian Lander

Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. — Maya Angelou

Everyone wants the same; everyone is the
same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses. — George Vecsey

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen

Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily. — Victor Davis Hanson

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. — Robert A. Heinlein

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all. — Darren Boyd

Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In — John Calvin

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. — Jen Lancaster

A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life. — William J. Clinton

Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary; — Aldous Huxley

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. — Brian Tracy

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate. — Iyanla Vanzant

As a part of their conditioning, women voluntarily prostitute themselves into the auction and groom themselves toward the highest exchange. — Bryant McGill

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. — Orison Swett Marden

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all. — Mary Esther Harding

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out. — Anupam Kher

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily. — Cory Doctorow

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. — Robert A. Heinlein

There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers.
-Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer

But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute. — Hermann Hesse

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook

How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything? — Albert Camus

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it. — Tom Metzger

Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily. — Henry Miller

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters. — Robert E.Lee

No one does wrong voluntarily. — Socrates

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. — Terry Pratchett

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior. — J.F. Bouchard

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class. — Joseph Stalin

Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily? — Jerry Seinfeld

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. — Victoria Woodhull

I would not have voluntarily let go, but I was caught off guard by the magnetic force between us. — Nicole Gulla

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. — Marcus Aurelius

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks — Tom Hanks

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong

The secret of all success is to voluntarily or involuntarily teach what you do to others. — Ben Tolosa

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. — Francis Ford Coppola

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked — Carlos Castaneda

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. — Mildred H. McAfee

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God. — Arthur W. Pink

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm not insane, I'm voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. — Samuel Johnson

The children of God do sin; they sin knowingly; they sin voluntarily; but they do not sin habitually. — Gardiner Spring

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James

Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought. — Antiphon

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis De Sales

In any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. — Massad Ayoob

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him? — St. Catherine Of Siena