Compulsory
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.
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Compulsory Quotations
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
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
When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.
Jackie Stewart
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
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
Chen Shui-bian
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.
Carol Bellamy
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson
Compulsory Translations
compulsory in Dutch is bindend, gedwongen, dwingend
compulsory in German is obligatorisch
compulsory in Italian is obbligatorio
compulsory in Spanish is compulsivo, obligatorio
compulsory in Swedish is obligatorisk
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