But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
G. K. Chesterton
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
The American Red Cross will be embarking upon a national effort to share with the American public our fundamental principles that include humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality . . . in an effort to ensure Americans are compassionate to all, regardless of their ethnic, religious, or national heritage.
Bill Blaul
As long as they can work with their physician on it, and it remains voluntary, then we generally don't have a problem with it.
Dr. Edward Langston
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura
Northwest is running out of time. New labor agreements will be in place this fall _ either voluntarily or through the bankruptcy court. We think we can fare better through voluntary negotiations than by having an agreement mandated by a bankruptcy judge.
Mark Mcclain
John Roberts' purchase is the third-largest voluntary green power purchase in the state of Minnesota. The Green Power Partnership applauds their leadership and hopes that other businesses will follow their example.
Blaine Collison
She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.
David Defazio
Voluntary programs that are aimed at reducing emissions...are offset by the growth because there are no requirements overall.
Vicki Arroyo
Gideon is unaware of it; he's grown up in it, and accepts the shortcomings until -- it's sort of a typical Everyman situation -- you accept the shortcomings until you get shoved up against an uncomfortable wall by them and have to look at them. And that's what happens to him. It's not a voluntary process.
Caleb Carr
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.
Joseph Tate
We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach.
Lawrence Lessig
In any event, we continue to believe that a voluntary near-term bankruptcy for GM/GMAC is of very low probability. We continue to believe that the biggest risk arguably would be a UAW strike at Delphi...our sense currently is that a significant labor disruption at Delphi remains a remote likelihood.
Peter Nesvold
I am pleased however that our shop stewards and members have accepted a settlement that will see the great majority of our members go back to work or take voluntary separation.
Tony Woodley
Anyone who gets involved in this case has to do it on a voluntary basis knowing there are 20 years of records that have to be reviewed and digested first.
Thomas Mcculloch
All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.
Manouchehr Mottaki
There is a very short reference at the end of the audio -- if it lasts 30 seconds, I'd be surprised -- that invites students to come to the event after school hours. They make clear that it is voluntary, and they say it is faith-based. They were clear about that.
Patrick Rocks
We still get a lot done in a voluntary fashion.
Mary Smith
The order from the president lifts the voluntary restrictions and Iran will resume its work.
Gholam Hossein Elham
None of the data so far is shocking. We want candidates to accept them, but they are voluntary.
Pete Maysmith
We may also need to remove one of the Iranian arguments that the suspension called for is 'voluntary'. We could do both by making the voluntary suspension a mandatory requirement to the Security Council, in a Resolution we would aim to adopt (in) ... early May.
John Sawers
This agreement is a voluntary commitment by our private sector to help the government create a system for monitoring and reporting on the levels of GHG emissions in South Africa.
Marthinus Van Schalkwyk
Based on recent statements by Tony Blair I would say that there is a move in the direction of voluntary agreements.
Julian Morris
With Mexicans, it's almost always voluntary return.
Chuck Albrecht
We continue to meet our obligation to serve those individuals needing voluntary inpatient care, consistent with the Regional Support Network contract, by authorizing inpatient mental health treatment at hospitals in the greater Puget Sound region. It is important for the community to understand that during this time the majority of services offered by the Regional Support Network remain open.
Fran Lewis
No one's being kicked out. It's a voluntary thing at this point.
Jon Friedenberg
A strong public education system is just essential to business and economic growth. We've been focused on desegregation for 41 years. Now, we get to focus on the next step. It's up to us to do it. No one has a big stick standing over us. I always find that voluntary efforts are the most fruitful - plus, we have no excuses.
Gary Mcgoffin
This had nothing to do with this transaction. It is a voluntary package.
W. Patrick Mcginnis
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
This voluntary is good for six months, until February of next year. Then it can be extended.
Bevin Williams
We have a long-standing policy that the assignments to war zones or other dangerous places are completely voluntary. And that is understood by everyone who works here.
Jeffrey Schneider
It is a Medicare prescription drug program, a benefit and an entitlement inside Medicare. It will be voluntary, and it will be universal. That is, it is the government's responsibility to make sure that every senior in the United States gets the ability to avail themselves of this program, period.
William Thomas
Unlike a merchant association, this is not a voluntary organization. We need to be able to count on funding year after year. ... If you want something, you have to fund it yourself.
Debbie Baker
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
Chen Shui bian
As part of our ongoing voluntary efforts to provide our customers with the best science-based information, we continually enhance our testing.
Cathy Kapica
Everything looks good at this point, just the way it's dissipating. All of the evacuations have been voluntary and we're allowing people back into their houses that are fairly close and had left.
Capt. Ronnie Rector
I do not like to force property owners to go to different schools simply because of new growth. Let people do it on a voluntary basis.
Jennifer Faliero
She wanted to hear it directly from Mr. Libby, and he assured her that it was voluntary.
Joseph Tate
As we continue to add more capacity with the runway projects, we will ask the FAA to take a look at voluntary flight reductions and roll them back.
Roderick Drew
Rather than cramming solutions down the system's throat, we believe voluntary initiatives with a degree of consensus have a better chance of being implemented.
David Sandman
We decided we would offer lotteries to those charities on the basis that we would give them as many as was needed as long as it didn't exceed their voluntary income, because that sudden influx of funds would create problems for them.
Andrew Williams
Mandatory lifetime registration of all persons who, like defendant here, were convicted of voluntary oral copulation with a minor of the age of 16 or 17, but not of someone convicted of voluntary sexual intercourse with a minor of the same age, violates the equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions.
Justice Joyce Kennard
It?s voluntary, so it makes a difference. We help people who want help.
Nancy Hudgins
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
Milton Babbitt
Creating voluntary personal retirement accounts for our workers just entering the work force are a good idea that Congress should examine.
Mel Martinez
That's the only one that took me by surprise. We all expected him to be there. He's a regular in Cincinnati. He's not competing for a job. But you can't say anything. This is voluntary. A guy has a right to say no. But he would have been good to have on the team.
Jose Oquendo
In our view, voluntary programs, such as our green generation, should be given an opportunity to mature, grow and develop.
Dan Bishop
After this decision, Iran has to immediately bring into force its parliamentary law to suspend voluntary implementation of (the watchdog agency's) Additional Protocol (on snap inspections) and (pursue) commercial-scale enrichment which until today was under complete suspension.
Javad Vaeedi
The voluntary standard that applies to paper shredders is that the opening can't allow a 12-year-old's finger to fit inside the paper shredder.
Patty Davis
They may be waiting for a shakeout; they may be waiting for more information. Or they have decided they don't want coverage - it is a voluntary program, after all.
Mike Fierberg
It's a premium, not a savings, which is why it's voluntary.
Jack Brautigam
The program is voluntary and informational, designed to help drivers keep their carts in safe working order. There is no charge for any of the services or materials provided.
Bill Dauber
Tuesday at 2 p.m., I will ask for a voluntary evacuation if the weather predictions remain the same.
Ann Thomas
Slots will be replaced by voluntary fill-ins, ... The guys who can't go down there, it gives them a chance to help out.
Mike Bailey
While characterized as voluntary, we believe his departure is likely related to Gateway's inability to reinvigorate its professional and direct businesses despite significant headway in retail, which has lower margins.
Joel Wagonfeld
People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.
James Cobb
This new prescription drug plan was supposed to be a voluntary program to help people who didn't have coverage. All this is doing is harming the people who had coverage, America's most vulnerable citizens.
Jeanne Finberg
The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.
Douglas Lowenstein
The drug plans are offering better benefits at lower prices than independent experts had predicted because they are competing to serve everyone in Medicare. Drug plans know beneficiaries don't have to sign up. It's a voluntary benefit.
Mark Mcclellan
This resolution has no legal basis. All it does is simply remove the opportunity for voluntary cooperation between Iran and the agency.
Manouchehr Mottaki
This would take the guesswork out of it (a defendant?s statement) -- let the guy sit down and then the jury can decide whether it was voluntary and hear exactly what and how it (the statement) was given.
Arthur Donato
We met with Mr. Metzger and identified the problems. He has done some voluntary stream restoration and has planted several dozen trees to provide shading and safeguard the habitat.
Robert Dunbar
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
There's very little we can do. This has to be a voluntary deal for the faculty and staff, and we are asking them to be good stewards of our natural resources.
Pat Teeters
We think there is virtue in letting customers act on a voluntary nature in terms of renewable energy. We think it makes more economic sense than a state-mandated Renewable Portfolio Standard, which could end up being more expensive for the consumer.
Daniel Bishop
This may result in a fuel shortage at the Johannesburg International Airport, and the need for fuel rationing. All airlines were requested to immediately begin voluntary fuel rationing, where possible, of at least 15% less than normal operations.
Solomon Makgale
The deficit is a little smaller because of this voluntary tax.
Leonard Burman
If Congress will pass a plan that gives real, voluntary Medicare prescription drug coverage ... then I will sign a marriage penalty relief law.
Chelsea Clinton
The available scientific evidence proves that wild Atlantic salmon in the United States are on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service disregarded the scientific evidence and violated their statutory mandate under the ESA when they accepted Maine's voluntary plan instead of federal listing.
Michael Senatore
Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.
James Adamson
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre De Coubertin
Environmental Defense is pleased to work with Frontline Farmers on a voluntary plan to help farmers get affordable access to new technologies in a timely manner.
Dan Whittle
I've heard people say I was forced out -- I was not forced out. This was a voluntary act.
Larry Hall
The board has made her working conditions intolerable ... She's being forced out -- let's face it. This is not a voluntary resignation. The work is so far from over -- it's just a shame Arlene doesn't get to stay here and finish it. She's a tremendous leader, a tremendous educator and a wonderful human being.
Brendan Kelly
They're going to have to do some voluntary conservation -- take shorter showers, don't wash your car as often, don't water your lawn unless you are putting down some new grass.
Dan Stevens
The attorney general made those strong pronouncements before the case began to face the scrutiny of defense attorneys, questions about how voluntary were Walker Lindh's statements during government interrogations, and issues involving how particular statutes are applied.
James Robinson
When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of the whole notion of voluntary testing for pregnant women.
Ann Fisher
It's clear that voluntary disclosure is not working and even small gifts can influence behavior.
Dr. Troyen Brennan
We still don't have to do this if broadcasters turn down the bags of bucks. A failure of broadcasters to reaffirm the voluntary ban is likely to lead to an outcry that would justify a notice of inquiry.
Reed Hundt
Right now it's a voluntary program for premises ID. It looks to me like our federal colleagues are continuing to refine the (program) as they learn more from the field experience of the various states. I can't say what the final product will look like, but they are aware of the concerns folks have, with cost especially.
Ned Porter
Our voluntary agreement with the state attorneys general builds on Philip Morris USA's existing trade programs and policies intended to preserve the integrity of our brands and the legitimate trade channels through which they are sold. It sets a framework for continued information sharing with law enforcement and support of their efforts to eliminate illegal sales of Philip Morris USA products.
Denise Keane
In Waterford, 95 positions are being eliminated through a combination of attrition, retirements and voluntary job eliminations. There will be 50 union-represented positions eliminated, resulting in 10 layoffs.
Maria Moreno
You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a voluntary capacity walking away.
Nigel Farage
Currently the policy is to acquire them on a voluntary basis, there is also an issue of cost.
David Stuart
The one thing... we cannot afford is to allow this US administration to hold the rest of the world hostage while they go on about voluntary this and voluntary that.
Steve Sawyer
October first is just another step towards collecting more taxes. It's voluntary. A lot of retailers won't start until after the holiday shopping season. It'll be a gradual effect.
Charles Collins
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen
The report calls for more water flow on a voluntary basis. It does not require any one that is involved to make sacrifices. The new plan relies on maximum fish barging. This is not the aggressive non-dam breaching plan NMFS said it was going to be. It's a passive, non-breaching plan.
Scott Bosse
These are the higher echelon for our group, which will help create and organize the program. This is all voluntary, and we have a lot of good people with good input about the game; some are from [established soccer programs] in West New York and North Bergen.
Chris Irizarry
Those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us. . . .
Bill Bennett
It has always been our long-standing policy that these assignments are voluntary and that is understood by all the people who we work with.
Jeffrey Schneider
And it tries to strengthen procedural safeguards for the most vulnerable of children from contiguous countries, such as asylum seekers, and abused, abandoned or neglected children. That includes children who are too young to make a decision on voluntary departure, or children who are incompetent by virtue of mental retardation.
Christopher Nugent
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
Theodor Herzl
We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced.
Louis Thompson
We will actively encourage our members to stop providing health care as a voluntary benefit because it makes no sense.
Bruce Josten
Often families misinterpret reflex twitching for voluntary movement.
Anthony Rudd
We still encourage the airlines to continue with the voluntary 15% fuel rationing where possible.
Solomon Makgale
We are still on track with the previous announced restructuring and the voluntary offers close today. Once that is done we see where we are and make decisions.
Bill Price
We're thinking that these areas are very important in voluntary control of thought processes.
Michael Posner
This isn't like investing in a steel mill that would otherwise go out of business. That's not going to happen here. Is there risk? Yes, there's risk in any investment, but this would be voluntary. People will take it on with their eyes wide open.
Linda Foley
We make sure that legal parentage gets established for the child. We do get involved with the hospitals, we talk to both parents about how to sign a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity. Or we can use other judicial or administrative remedies to make an alleged father become the legal father.
Pam Compton
I see a lot of loyalty and commitment. In our businesses we have very little voluntary turnover.
Cheryl Mccann
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Henry Hazlitt
It's an end run around the voluntary bans that the networks respect. This will be the equivalent of a branded liquor bottle racing around the track.
George Hacker
Although what is being done in 1996 in our emergency rooms bears no moral resemblance to what happened 50 years ago in Nazi, Germany; nevertheless, the issue of voluntary participation in research is a very delicate matter.
Jonathan Moreno
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
Eliphas Levi
In the present-day situation, with the state of affairs as it is, it is not a voluntary situation, with all the injustices in the power differential between men and women.
Elizabeth Shadigian
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