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None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course. -- Adora Svitak
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. -- Jonathan Franzen
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown. -- Tom Hanks
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. -- Sam Neill
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. -- George W. Bush
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. -- Ernst Mach
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! -- Saint Francis de Sales
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. -- Malcolm X
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. -- Murray Walker
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. -- Louis Kronenberger
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. -- Dorothy Thompson
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. -- Lysander Spooner
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. -- Francis Ford Coppola
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! -- Ronald Reagan
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. -- Jeb Bush
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. -- Milton Friedman
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily. -- Pete Seeger
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. -- Henry W. Kendall
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck. -- Lysander Spooner
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. -- Malcolm X
If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily. -- Penn Jillette
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. -- Whittaker Chambers
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination. -- Ivan Krastev
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. -- Harry Browne
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
No one does wrong voluntarily. -- Socrates
Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily. -- Victor Davis Hanson
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm not insane, I'm voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. -- Jared Leto
The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily. -- Felix Morley
Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God. -- Arthur W. Pink
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. -- Orison Swett Marden
Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything~? -- Albert Camus
If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. -- Malcolm X
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. -- Murray Walker
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. -- Clive Thompson
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. -- Terry Pratchett
That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. -- James F. Byrnes
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. -- Samuel Johnson
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. -- Robert A. Heinlein
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly. -- Chrissie Wellington
Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames. -- Billy Bishop
We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it. -- Tom Metzger
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. -- Mildred H. McAfee
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally -- Maurice Strong
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen -- Stephenie Meyer
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. -- Victoria Woodhull
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. -- James Cook
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. -- Jean Toomer
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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. -- Brian Tracy
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all. -- Mary Esther Harding
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life. -- William J. Clinton
Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily. -- Rita Rudner
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. -- Maya Angelou
...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. -- Massad Ayoob
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him. -- C. S. Lewis
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. -- Theodor Adorno
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? -- P. D. James
People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily. -- Andy Cohen
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate. -- Iyanla Vanzant
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. -- John F. Kennedy
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. -- John Taylor Gatto
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class. -- Joseph Stalin
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. -- Aesop
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. -- Jonathan Franzen
People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out. -- Anupam Kher
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. -- Marcus Aurelius
I didn't just voluntarily quit the relationship, did i? I slept and snore, didn't i? And couldn't even remember when you strolled away. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily? -- Jerry Seinfeld
Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. -- Jen Lancaster
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. -- Charles Handy
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him? -- St. Catherine of Siena
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters. -- Robert E. Lee
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. -- Eugen Sandow
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.... -- Samuel Adams
Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked -- Carlos Castaneda
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all. -- Darren Boyd
Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. -- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. -- Napoleon Hill
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for. -- Paul G. Hoffman
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. -- Pete Seeger
Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him. -- Virginia H. Pearce
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. -- Samuel Johnson
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs. -- Jim Gerlach
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic? -- Ali Sina
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. -- Murray Rothbard
... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty! -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to. -- Nell Zink
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson -- Edward M. Hallowell
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life. -- Henry Clay
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place. -- Albert Brooks
Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails. -- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do. -- Walter E. Williams
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily. -- Daniel Goleman
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. -- Melissa Bank
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. -- William Benton Clulow
By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it. -- Robert Bork
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us. -- Michel de Montaigne

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