Consent Quotes

Familiarity breeds consent.

— Rita Mae Brown

The mind approves and the body consents.

— Nelly Mazloum

What is government but theft by consent?

— Scott Lynch

Fate does not always seek our consent.

— Zedd

“I'm not giving you my consent!”

— Yennie Fer

Fate does not seek our consent.

— Terry Goodkind

I can never consent to being dictated to.

— John Tyler

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don’t need anyone’s consent to live your dreams”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

— Mark Doty

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

— Edward Snowden

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

— Anonymous

Nobody can make you failure without your consent.

— Jimba Matthias

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

— Plato

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.

— Cee Lo Green

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

— John Fletcher

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person,…

— Jan Hus

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both…

— Al Sharpton

“She was inwardly delighted, but didn't express her consent. Perhaps this is woman's way of making love. They don't confess easily.”

— Tarif Naaz

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led…

— George Eliot

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of…

— Helen M. Luke

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to…

— Gordon Smith

Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"…

— Noam Chomsky

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents…

— Clifton Fadiman

There were good-faith reasons to resort to extraordinary measures when confronting an unknown global pandemic. Most of us consented to the lockdown,…

— Claire Fox

It also makes me worry about photos of me that exist that I might not even know about. How do I appear…

— Keith Murray

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do…

— Sarah Greene

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind,…

— Charles Dickens

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a…

— Patrick Cleburne

That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having…

— George Mason

The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the…

— Walter E. Williams

The courts are run on COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW and that is has NOTHING to do with any IN-LAW procedures whatsoever. So the…

— Jack Smith

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible,…

— Franz Kafka

“It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we…

— Thomas Merton

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer