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I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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.
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
We remain open to explore options on a voluntary approach built on a realistic outlook for the Greek economy and restoration of Greece's market access.
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.
All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
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.
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.
We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
Not enough children being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella because their parents, for whatever reason, have decided that it is voluntary.
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
