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  • 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

    Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.107, Vintage
  • that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

    Men   Land   Compulsory  
    e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • 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.

    James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics
  • A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

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

    Religious   Prayer   Soul  
    Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.15, Verso
  • I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

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

    Lying   Cities   Feet  
    Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com
  • Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.

  • A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

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

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

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

    "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.
  • For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

    Learning   Way   Logic  
  • When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

    Justice   Boards   Dinner  
    Jules Verne (1965). “Journey to the centre of the earth”, Penguin Group USA
  • For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

    Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

    Buck v. Bell (1927)
  • Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.

  • It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

    "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.
  • MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

    "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.
  • Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

    Crush   Home   Army  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”
  • At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

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

    Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Clayton Pierce (2014). “Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Six”, p.379, Routledge
  • For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

    Children   School   Law  
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