There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
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.
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him.
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man. . . First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself. . . and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man. . . a spectator of the world. . . [Third] Schopenhauer's man. . . voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.
Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
. . . in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.
No one does wrong voluntarily.
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.