The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. — George Will Copy Share Image
“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.” — Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors… — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause,… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“Soul,” said Jack, turning toward it again, “you’ve been listening. Do you have any suggestions?” “I have only one desire.” “What is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Honesty is an indispensable part of consent. Being able to share, to the best of your ability, who you are in a… — Franklin Veaux Copy Share Image
“I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally… — pattrice jones Copy Share Image
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.” — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook. — Alexander Nix Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Consensus facit legem. CONSENT MAKES THE LAW. A contract is a law between the parties, which can acquire force only by consent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
