Consent Quotes · Page 7

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

— Thomas Hooker

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

— Rachel Vail

Cats don't like change without their consent.

— Roger Caras

“There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.”

— Amy Hatvany

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

— Gary Shteyngart

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.”

— Michael Flynn

When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.

— Rob Lowe

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

— George Bernard Shaw

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

— Jonathan Edwards

Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'

— Rachel Vail

“Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.”

— Lex Allen

“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare…

— David Rovics

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

— Said Musa

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be…

— Algernon Sidney

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit…

— Cecily McMillan

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to…

— Robert H. Jackson

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a…

— Gary Bauer

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable…

— Dawn Johnsen

We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in…

— John Dickinson

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying…

— Thomas Merton

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it…

— John Jay Hooker

Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake…

— Benjamin Wiker

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this…

— Abraham Lincoln

“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells." Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage."…

— Kristin Cashore

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,…

— Anonymous

I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United…

— Martin Harris

I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the…

— Betty Friedan

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course…

— Noam Chomsky

Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both…

— Ralph P. Martin

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able…

— Baron d'Holbach

“It surprises many to learn that women don't give up consent when they get married.”

— Ngina Otiende

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

— Ashish Sharma

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

— Euripides

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

— Saint Augustine

Manipulation is to enslave the will without the other party's consent.

— Josh Q

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

— Roger Williams

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own…

— Thomas Jefferson