Consent Quotes

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.