#voluntary

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#basis #because #equipment #even #having

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#voluntarysimplicity #money

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ↗

— Mark Twain

#emotion #involuntary #sincere

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

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

— Tom Lehrer

#involuntary #laugh #laughter #you

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#bear #bitterness #borne #exertions #fruit

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#nation #regret #tattooed #voluntary #will

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#morality #only #voluntary

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win. ↗

— John Stossel

#happens #only #think #transaction #unless

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