Consent Quotes

364 quotes by 289 authors

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to… — Gary Bauer
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and… — Albert Camus
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent. — Kyle Chandler
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. — William Ellery Channing
I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide. — Diablo Cody
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. — William Shakespeare
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those… — Bruno Jasienski
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in… — Christopher Columbus
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… — John Dickinson
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but… — Woodrow Wilson
Silence gives consent. — Oliver Goldsmith
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your… — John G. Lake
The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we… — Francis of Assisi
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. — Joseph Conrad

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