Top 173 Compulsory Quotes & Sayings

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

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

Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

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

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

Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

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

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

Corruption never has been compulsory.

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.

Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

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

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

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

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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

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

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

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

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

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

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

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

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

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

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

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

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

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

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

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

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

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

I am absolutely not in favor of any compulsory vaccinations. Vaccination against coronavirus should absolutely not be mandatory.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don't understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

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.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

Make it compulsory that at least four weeks in a year the theaters have to screen local films and let them choose the time. That's how you have to encourage the industry.

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

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

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

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

Not every school in India has athletics as a compulsory sport. They should make it compulsory.

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

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

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

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.