Voluntary Society Quotes

#1. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Mark Skousen

#2. The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves ...

Peter Drucker

#3. The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Milton Friedman

#4. Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

Robert Southey

#5. When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.

Troy Dumais

#6. Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.

Roderick T. Long

#7. And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

Takashi Murakami

#9. Greet him with gentle words and caresses and welcome him onto their bed, where he would curl, purring, warm in the crook of a bent knee.

Erin Hunter

#10. Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

Rick Warren

#11. In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

Ayn Rand

#12. If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains.

Alan W. Watts

#13. If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#14. All I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, tight, and held on

Sarah Dessen

#15. Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Ramana Maharshi

#16. For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#17. On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different - and, by our standards, infinitely preferable - to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.

Milton Friedman

#18. Society is the total of the forced or voluntary services that men perform for each other; that is to say, of public services and private services.

Frederic Bastiat

#19. The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Katherine Dunn

#20. You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.

Gemma Malley

#21. Unlike classical liberalism, which saw the government as a necessary evil, or simply a benign but voluntary social contract for free men to enter into willingly, the belief that the entire society was one organic whole left no room for those who didn't want to behave, let alone "evolve.

Jonah Goldberg

#22. A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Jonathan Sacks

#23. When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#24. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

Ayn Rand

#25. Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#26. I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Roger Angell

#27. They say curiosity killed the cat but I am unconcerned. I am smarter, though slightly less evil, than any cat.

Eliza Crewe