It is my contention that civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite... in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active ...voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its m...ethods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imp...erative and difficult one. At the cradle of play as well as of artistic activity there stood leisure, tedium entailed by increased spiritual mobility, a horror vacui, the need of letting forms no longer imprisoned move freely, of filling empty time with sequences of notes, empty space with sequences of form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for--they swear to that which turns to account. Do you ...suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more perni...cious than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence, the former--of the corruption of the will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, I see it is reasonable to punish a rash action, which could not be justly done by man to man, unless the same were volunt...ary. For no action of a man can be said to be without deliberation, though never so sudden, because it is supposed he had time to deliberate all the precedent time of his life, whether he should do that kind of action or not. And hence it is, that he that killeth in a sudden passion of anger, shall nevertheless be justly put to death, because all the time, wherein he was able to consider whether to kill were good or evil, shall be held for one continual deliberation, and consequently the killing shall be judged to proceed from election.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and cont...rary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »