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Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. -- Ben Shapiro
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. -- Barbara Tuchman
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. -- Harry Browne
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. -- Duane Elgin
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen. -- Tony Abbott
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. -- Bill Frist
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance. -- Henry Hazlitt
Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners. -- Dorothy Day
Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned. -- Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Philanthropy should be voluntary. -- Bill Gates
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. -- Lincoln Steffens
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. -- Jane Austen
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. -- Pierre de Coubertin
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases. -- David Suzuki
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. -- Henry Hazlitt
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. -- Harry Browne
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. -- John Mackey
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. -- Jesse Ventura
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. -- Robert Jackson
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. -- Christopher Lasch
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. -- Lysander Spooner
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -- Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. -- Jesse Ventura
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. -- Charles Eastman
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. -- Peter Singer
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. -- Margaret Thatcher
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. -- William Wordsworth
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted. -- Theodor Mommsen
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. -- Blaise Pascal
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity. -- John Mackey
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. -- Alexander Herzen
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. -- Mark Skousen
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. -- Ben Shapiro
Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased) -- Nicholas Ling
Ignorance is a voluntary condition. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. -- Nicholas Ling
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. -- Plato
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. -- Seneca the Younger
Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers. -- John Milton
Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE -- Whoopi Goldberg
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Belief, like love, must be voluntary. -- John Updike
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal. -- Samuel Johnson
Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act. -- John C. Maxwell
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. -- Robert Higgs
No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary. -- Barbara Holland
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. -- Tony Parsons
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. -- John Tillotson
To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life. -- Duane Elgin
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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. -- Paul Bourget
There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage. -- Ron Paul
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it. -- Al-Tabarani
Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. -- Robert L. Payton
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. -- Ronald Reagan
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. -- William Hazlitt
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. -- Haruki Murakami
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. -- Ally Carter
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. -- Bob Black
The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths... -- Anne Desclos
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. -- Sharron Angle
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development -- Stephen D. Krashen
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians. -- Hudson Taylor
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. -- William Hazlitt
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. -- Shami Chakrabarti
It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity. -- Duane Elgin
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. -- Honore de Balzac
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced. -- Philip Schaff
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. -- Alan Watts
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. -- Bill McKibben
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. -- Robert Toombs
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. -- C. S. Lewis
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. -- Dorothy Day
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming. -- David Hawkins
No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win. -- John Stossel
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. -- Duane Elgin
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. -- Blaise Pascal
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite. -- John Steinbeck
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. -- W. Edwards Deming
Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. -- Alexander Berkman
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. -- Blaise Pascal
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. -- D.E. Stevenson
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time. -- Genesis P-Orridge
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. -- George Orwell
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. -- Agatha Christie
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily. -- Andy Cohen
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. -- Milton Friedman
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels -- Theodor Herzl
My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me." -- Tim Vine
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. -- Milton Friedman
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. -- Joseph Rotblat
Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family. -- Stefan Molyneux
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. -- Ronald Reagan
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? -- Walter Dean Myers
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. -- Paul Collier

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