Top 470 Voluntary Quotes & Sayings

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

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

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

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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

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

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

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

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.

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

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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

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

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

Most of the money that we provide to the WTO is done on a voluntary basis.

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

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

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

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

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

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated.

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

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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

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

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

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