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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
— Aesop
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
— Chrissie Wellington
We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.
— Calvin Miller
I could get used to anything-that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
— Ernst Mach
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
— George W. Bush
Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.
— Rita Rudner
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
— James F. Byrnes
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but ... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
— Murray Walker
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
— Jonathan Franzen
We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power.
— Lawren Leo
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
— John Taylor Gatto
No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size - and that, in a way, became my theme.
— Ronald Reagan
Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on
— Adam Johnson
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
— Louis Kronenberger
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
— C.S. Lewis
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.
— Poe Ballantine
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.
— Susan Juby
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
— Jean Toomer
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
— Criss Jami
Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely ... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
— John F. Kennedy
For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.
— Christian Lander
Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.
— Maya Angelou
Everyone wants the same; everyone is the
same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche
same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.
— George Vecsey
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
— Jonathan Franzen
Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
— Victor Davis Hanson
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.
— Darren Boyd
Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In
— John Calvin
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.
— Jen Lancaster
A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
— William J. Clinton
Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary;
— Aldous Huxley
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
— Brian Tracy
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.
— Iyanla Vanzant
As a part of their conditioning, women voluntarily prostitute themselves into the auction and groom themselves toward the highest exchange.
— Bryant McGill
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
— Orison Swett Marden
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
— Mary Esther Harding
People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.
— Anupam Kher
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
— Cory Doctorow
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers.
-Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer
-Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer
But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute.
— Hermann Hesse
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
— James Cook
How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?
— Albert Camus
We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.
— Tom Metzger
Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily.
— Henry Miller
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
— Robert E.Lee
No one does wrong voluntarily.
— Socrates
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
— Terry Pratchett
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
— Charles Handy
By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.
— J.F. Bouchard
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
— Joseph Stalin
Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?
— Jerry Seinfeld
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
— Victoria Woodhull
I would not have voluntarily let go, but I was caught off guard by the magnetic force between us.
— Nicole Gulla
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
— Marcus Aurelius
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
— Maurice Strong
The secret of all success is to voluntarily or involuntarily teach what you do to others.
— Ben Tolosa
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked
— Carlos Castaneda
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
— Mildred H. McAfee
Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
— Arthur W. Pink
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
— Clive Thompson
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
— Samuel Johnson
The children of God do sin; they sin knowingly; they sin voluntarily; but they do not sin habitually.
— Gardiner Spring
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
— P.D. James
Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.
— Antiphon
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Saint Francis De Sales