Consent Quotes

364 quotes by 289 authors

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and… — Jack Miles
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly… — Peter Kreeft
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable… — Pio of Pietrelcina
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. — Benjamin Franklin
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth.… — Ronald Reagan
Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent? — James Otis
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to… — Alexander Hamilton
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to… — Nathaniel Borenstein
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have… — Benjamin Franklin
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… — Walter Lippmann
We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or… — Paul Warburg
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on… — Clifton Fadiman
If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent. — Cee Lo Green
No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy… — Patrick Cleburne
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more… — Benjamin Wiker
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. — Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into… — Simone de Beauvoir

Who Wrote These Consent Quotes

289 authors contributed a total of 364 Consent Quotes, led by these top contributors: