Involuntary Quotes

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.