Associations to the word «Voluntarism»

Wiktionary

VOLUNTARISM, noun. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
VOLUNTARISM, noun. (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
VOLUNTARISM, noun. (politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn