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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
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
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
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
— William Hazlitt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
— Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
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