Consent Quotes · Page 3

“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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

— George Washington

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

— Thomas Hooker

“And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.”

— John Christopher

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

— Maria Isabel Barreno

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

— Al Franken

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

— Rebecca Skloot

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Adrian Cronauer

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

— George Bancroft

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

— Thomas Jefferson

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

— Bob McDonnell

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

— Edward Bernays

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

— Mark Twain

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the…

— Albert Camus

Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the…

— Frank Herbert

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like.…

— John Entwistle

Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of…

— Calvin Miller

I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself-they paraded Saddam's dead sons…

— Cindy Sheehan

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of…

— Chalmers Johnson

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police…

— Al Sharpton

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in…

— Robert Bellarmine

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows…

— Oscar Wilde

It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings…

— Susan B. Anthony

Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in…

— Nelson Antonio Denis

“I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally…

— pattrice jones

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in…

— Helmut Schmidt

“A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay…

— Jaclyn Friedman

Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics…

— Joichi Ito

Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Abraham Lincoln

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

— Baruch Spinoza

Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.

— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

— James Warburg

No one can make feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

— Saint Augustine

Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

— Pope Boniface VIII