Consent Quotes

Silence gives consent.

— Anonymous

Silence always gives consent.

— Myrtle Reed

Silence is the door of consent.

— Anonymous

Dissent without action is consent.

— Henry David Thoreau

Your silence gives consent.

— Plato

I can never consent to being dictated to.

— John Tyler

Fate does not seek our consent.

— Terry Goodkind

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You're giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave...”

— Alaska Angelini

“I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.”

— Victor Hugo

“Living in another country would change me bit by bit without my consent.”

— Claudia Poser

“I couldn't let anyone make me feel unworthy without my consent”

— Nicole Williams

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

— Patricia Ireland

Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.

— Rachel Vail

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

— Thomas Hooker

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent…

— Plotinus

“A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.”

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

— Alexander Nix

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

— Alexander Hamilton

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it,…

— Michael Beckwith

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

— Tariq Ali

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without…

— Pierre Laval

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed…

— Joe Biden

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

— Mahatma Gandhi

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of…

— Lysander Spooner

I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them.…

— Hillary Clinton

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for…

— Susan B. Anthony

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the…

— Francis Bacon

People are hungry for the truth and they're constantly being gaslit by the corporate media. Let's remember what the corporate media is…

— Jimmy Dore

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so…

— Hugo Adam Bedau

“The causes which have been specified produced at first only unequal and disproportionate degrees of compliance with the requisitions of the Union.…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It cannot be denied that in cases of child rape the question of consent cannot arise at all, simply because a child…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt…

— Kristin Cashore

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve…

— Barack Obama

All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself…

— Ellen G. White

The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to…

— Alexander Hamilton

We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where…

— John F. Kerry