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Quotes About Voluntary

Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.
~ J. Gresham Machen
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.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.
~ Ron Paul
A fidelidade devia ser facultativa.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Allegiance is a powerful force in human affairs; it will not do to treat someone as a mental serf if he is convinced that his thralldom is honorable and voluntary. From
~ Christopher Hitchens
Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.
~ Laini Taylor
I must however make it clear from the start that this refutation will not invalidate the distinctions which we all quite properly draw between voluntary and involuntary actions and between strong-willed and weak-willed persons. It will, on the contrary, make clearer what is meant by 'voluntary' and 'involuntary', by 'strong-willed' and 'weak-willed', by emancipating these ideas from bondage to an absurd hypothesis.
~ Gilbert Ryle
So what of volitions themselves? Are they voluntary or involuntary acts of mind? Clearly either answer leads to absurdities.
~ Gilbert Ryle
Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.
~ Glenn Beck
Long voluntary subjection under individual Caesar and usurpers is in prospect. People no longer believe in principles, but will, periodically, probably believe in saviors.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
voluntary part of their
~ James A. Michener
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
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
~ Mary Esther Harding
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
~ Socrates
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
~ Saint Francis de Sales
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.
~ Erich Fromm
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels
~ Theodor Herzl
Amor, pensó, entregado de forma libre, aceptado de forma voluntaria. No había magia más potente.
~ Nora Roberts
Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.
~ Nora Roberts
Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.
~ Cecile Andrews
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
Those procedures might include certification by independent practitioners that the patient was terminally ill within the meaning of the relevant law; that the patient had voluntarily requested euthanasia, having been fully informed of the prognostic and palliative facts; that there was no undue influence on the patient from relatives or carers; that there had been a 'cooling-off' period since the request for euthanasia; that the request was signed and duly witnessed; and so on.
~ Charles Foster
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
~ Dan Lipinski
But it is not incumbent on man to reward a bad action with a good one, or to return good for evil; and whenever it is done, it is a voluntary act, and not a duty. It
~ Thomas Paine