Consent Quotes

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

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

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

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

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

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

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

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

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

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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.

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?

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.