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Quotes About Compulsory

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~ W. Edwards Deming
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~ Unknown
No employee should be forced to pay any union in order to keep their job.
~ Chris Sununu
America's commitment to the compulsory education of its young now reveals itself to be as futile as the pretended American commitment to compulsory democratization of the Vietnamese.
~ Ivan Illich
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. Every man was to be trained, not only to the use of arms, but of his wits also; and it is these which alone make the others effective weapons for the maintenance of freedom.
~ Unknown
In the German camps and on the Democrat-run plantations, forced labor was employed with "human tools" solely with regard to productivity and with little if any regard for the lives of the workers who were, in both cases, considered inferior and even subhuman. The analogy between two of the worst compulsory confinement and forced labor systems in human history is not merely legitimate; it is overdue.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
~ James Russell Lowell
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
~ Edward Abbey
The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as "taxation," although in less regularized epochs it was often known as "tribute." Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Education was no longer free, but it was still mandatory according to the law.
~ Octavia E. Butler