Consent Quotes
364 quotes by 289 authors
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
— Albert Camus
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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
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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
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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
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I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
— Diablo Cody
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Silence gives consent.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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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
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
Who Wrote These Consent Quotes
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