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Quotes About Compulsory

Daniel Hernandez told Judge Tynan that Richard didn't want to attend the jury selection; Tynan said that he had to, whether he wanted to or not.
~ Philip Carlo
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
~ Pankaj Mishra
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler's "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.
~ A.E. Samaan
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
~ Adrienne Rich
The existence of strict moral principles has invariably signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.
~ Wilhelm Reich
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
~ John Cornyn
I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
~ Rachel Tucker
that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
~ e. e. cummings
In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.
~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.
~ Kristie Phillips
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
~ Prince
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen.
~ Tony Abbott
A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity]
~ Edmund Burke
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'
~ Terry Teachout
Not every school in India has athletics as a compulsory sport. They should make it compulsory.
~ Milkha Singh
I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.
~ Pratik Gandhi
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~ W. Edwards Deming
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
~ E. F. Benson
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
~ Alexander Cockburn
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
~ William S. Burroughs
A first bill for the abolition of compulsory student union fees failed in 2004 but it was back as soon as the government won control of the Senate.
~ David Marr