Compulsory Quotes

Compulsory Quote of the day

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.