Voluntary Action Quotes

No one does wrong voluntarily.

You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

The compulsions of the law seem to have been provided for those only who require compulsions

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

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.

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.