#voluntary

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

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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#done #entirely #gets #i #ignored

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ↗

— Kate Millett

#ethics #involuntary #itself #medicine #odds

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. ↗

— Iain Sinclair

#disturbing #doubt #involuntary #journeys #most

Wonder is involuntary praise. ↗

— Edward Young

#praise #wonder

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. ↗

— Bill Frist

#enable #future #harness #marketplace #personal

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#dare #electronic #electronic media #eventual #himself

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#ideas #involuntary #reflex #theatre

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

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. ↗

— Ron Paul

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