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Quotes About Voluntary

Una vez libres los hijos de la obediencia que deben al padre, y el padre de los cuidados que debe a los hijos, recobran todos igualmente su independencia. Si continúan unidos luego, ya no lo es naturalmente, sino voluntariamente, y la familia misma no se mantiene sino por convención.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
~ Bob Black
Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don't require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn't require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests.
~ Unknown
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
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 .
~ Pauline Oliveros
30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.
~ John Smith
When civil society languishes, when the life of organizations and voluntary associations is curtailed, then sooner or later political parties will begin to languish as well, until, ultimately, they become degenerate ghettos whose only purpose is to elevate their members into positions of power.
~ Vaclav Havel
The church is not a voluntary association to be governed as its members see fit, but a dwelling place of God. It ought to be structured according to the orders of its commander, the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Unknown
What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
~ Peter Kreeft
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
~ Peter Kreeft
the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;
~ Peter Kreeft
Legal, regulated voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide have far less potential for abuse, and when they are available, there is no need to make it easy for people to find out how to kill themselves.
~ Peter Singer
So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.
~ Honore de Balzac
the ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.
~ Colin Ward
I just don't understand any of it. I guess I've fought so hard to keep my life that I can't conceive of a situation where I'd voluntarily give it up.
~ Craig Johnson
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.
~ D.E. Stevenson
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
~ Lord Acton
God does not "compel" a person to faith in the sense of forcing him to believe what he consciously refuses to accept, but God "compels" a change in the person's will by regeneration so that his assent to the gospel is indeed voluntary.
~ Unknown
I must bless, I must praise That you, my swan, who have All gifts that to the swan Impulsive Nature gave, The majesty and pride, Last night should add Your voluntary love.
~ W.H. Auden
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
We may state the question thus:—Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly. Is there anything more? No, there is nothing else. But
~ Plato
Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves — a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know.
~ Dennis Prager
The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
~ J. G. Ballard