#voluntary

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

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy

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

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

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#acts #between #causes #desire #force

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#causes #force #involuntary #ones #our

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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