Consent Quotes
364 quotes by 288 authors
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If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a…
— Lysander Spooner
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If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest…
— Lysander Spooner
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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are…
— Leland Stanford
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
— Jonathan Swift
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I can never consent to being dictated to.
— John Tyler
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
— George Washington
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
— Cormac McCarthy
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite…
— Richard Bach
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
— Miranda July
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I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it…
— William Shakespeare
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Fate does not seek our consent.
— Terry Goodkind
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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,…
— Don DeLillo
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Consent Quotes
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