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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. — Harry Browne

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. — Samuel Johnson

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. — Honore De Balzac

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage. — Ron Paul

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. — William Hazlitt

Belief, like love, must be voluntary. — John Updike

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law. — Mahatma Gandhi

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner. — Frederic Bastiat

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous ... but not quite. — John Steinbeck

Hiding your true nature is a kind of voluntary death. — John Michael Curlovich

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. — Haruki Murakami

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. — Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act. — John C. Maxwell

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win. — John Stossel

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

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming. — David Hawkins

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. — Duane Elgin

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. — Bob Black

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. — Bill Frist

The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time. — Genesis P-Orridge

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. — Seneca The Younger

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases. — David Suzuki

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. — William Hazlitt

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. — Ronald Reagan

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. — Henry Hazlitt

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. — Shami Chakrabarti

Philanthropy should be voluntary. — Bill Gates

Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue — Roy Jenkins

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it. — Samuel Johnson

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. — Barbara Tuchman

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. — Robert Toombs

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. — Mahatma Gandhi

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. — Dorothy Day

It could be said that one of the marks of a truly responsible life is a voluntary death — Donald Richie

My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me." — Tim Vine

We are all voluntary members of a concentration camp. — Charles Bukowski

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. — Joseph Rotblat

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. — Plato

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

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. — Sharron Angle

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life. — Duane Elgin

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. — Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. — Lincoln Steffens

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany

Till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion. — Benjamin Franklin

The police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law in order to secure and maintain public respect. — Lee P. Brown

I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness. — Narcotics Anonymous

The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself; — Peter Kreeft

No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary. — Barbara Holland

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately

In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein. — Martin McGuinness

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. — Milton Friedman

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage. — Joe Hill

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

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. — Amy Dacyczyn

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true. — Nora Roberts

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family. — Stefan Molyneux

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness — Seneca.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal

And what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterward. — Douglas Adams

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

The body is a marvelous machine ... a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels — Theodor Herzl

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection. — Thomas L. Friedman

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians. — Hudson Taylor

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. — Nicholas Ling

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C.I. Scofield

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE — Whoopi Goldberg

Her vulnerability to Wiggs was opening her up (as voluntary vulnerability often can ) in unexpected ways. — Tom Robbins

It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision. — Sunday Adelaja

The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ... — Anne Desclos

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. — John Tillotson

Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith. Perhaps — Napoleon Hill

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot. — Anthony Doerr

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre De Coubertin

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C.S. Lewis

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea. — Harrison Birtwistle

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. — Robert L. Payton

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal

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

morality is moral only when it is voluntary — Lincoln Steffens