#voluntary

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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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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ↗

— Seneca

#madness #nothing #voluntary

Wonder is involuntary praise. ↗

— Edward Young

#praise #wonder

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#choices #free #free speech #help #infringing

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ↗

— Jane Austen

#every man #man #neighborhood #spies #surrounded

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

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The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#combinations #contributions #course #duties #father

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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