Compulsory Quotes

• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Education, Historical, Liberty

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Pro Life, Abortion, Want

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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

  Victoria Beckham

  Made, Ought

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  "Deming: The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, February 28, 1995.

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

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Opinion, Achieve

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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

  Abbie Hoffman

  Peace, War, Military

  Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, School, People

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• Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

  Adrienne Rich

  Rejection, Males, Heterosexuality

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Educational

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mistress, Instinct, Forbidden

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

  Nigel Short

  Education, Population, Significant

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• By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

  John Taylor

  Teacher, Children, College

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• So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

  Salman Rushdie

  Home, Choices, Trying

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• 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.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Law, Hollywood, Benefits

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

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

  Tony Blair

  Problem, Trouble, Euthanasia

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

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, People, Feelings

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• 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.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Growing Up, Interesting, Horrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Suicide, Responsibility, Compassion

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Father, Son, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Land, People, Liberty

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, East Germany

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

  Thomas Beecham

  Years, Age, Population

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• Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

  Lindsey Davis

  Reading, Aunt, Pigs

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• We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Law, Decision

  "Vladimir Putin’s introductory remarks". web.archive.org. January 26, 2012.

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