Consent Quotes

364 quotes by 289 authors

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? — Basil Bunting
What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology… — David R. Brower
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading… — Abraham Lincoln
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all… — Ferdinand de Saussure
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their… — Thomas Jefferson
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a)… — Hugo Adam Bedau
Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never,… — Joe Biden
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or… — Howard Thurman
It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent. — Thomas Jefferson
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual… — Thomas Jefferson
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents! — William Shakespeare
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. — Charles Caleb Colton
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me… — Saint Augustine

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