Voluntary Association Quotes

#1. It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Hannah Arendt

#2. A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Harry Browne

#4. the phone rang, and I picked it up in the kitchen. It was Mac Evans, asking if I wanted to be an astronaut.

Chris Hadfield

#5. Most women are one man away from welfare.

Gloria Steinem

#6. George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty;

Jennifer Senior

#7. I feel an ache in my throat, but I manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razorblade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

Ramakrishna

#9. Physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.

Richard L. Brandt

#10. Who was it?" Jared asked. "I'll kill them."

"You are not inspiring me with a desire to give you a name, Captain Murderface of the good ship Unbalanced

Sarah Rees Brennan

#11. You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Will Smith

#12. All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

Lysander Spooner

#13. Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

Jonathan Edwards

#14. The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

Benjamin Tucker

#15. No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

Lysander Spooner