Voluntarily Quotes
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales -
No one does wrong voluntarily.
Socrates
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
Hans Frank -
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
M. Esther Harding -
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 -
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers, .. That's not censorship. That's common sense.
Joe Lieberman -
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.
John Stuart Mill -
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Ernst Mach -
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.
Billy Bishop -
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks -
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.
Leon Trotsky
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I'm convinced that it is the psychopathic personality that searches out a uniform. There's little doubt of what's going on in that man's head who will voluntarily don any uniform.
George Jackson -
I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.
Albert Speer -
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.
Eugen Sandow -
Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
Murray Walker