MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The causes which have been specified produced at first only unequal and disproportionate degrees of compliance with the requisitions of the Union.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Captain Phelan,” Cam asked, choosing his words with care. “Have you come to ask for our consent to marry Beatrix?” Christopher shook… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power—the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns—should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
After studying dozens of sexual assault cases, it is clear to me that the "he said/she said" aspect is a big part… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can… — Andreas Capellanus Copy Share Image
With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
“I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual.… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image