#voluntary

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. ↗

— Harry Browne

#american way #commerce #forced #participate #personal

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#eager #evidence #females #growing #how

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

#clan #connection #constitutes #family #head

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#anarchism #associations #brings #described #doctrine

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#business #businesses #competitors #costs #doing

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

#either #exist #form #good #government

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

#arrangement #attempt #delusion #grows #keep

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#involuntary #laugh #laughter #you

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. ↗

— John McHugh

#between #connection #far #fewer #fewer people

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#called #depends #government #honest #longer