Consent Quotes

364 quotes by 289 authors

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. — Josemaria Escriva
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it.… — Christopher West
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was… — Christopher Columbus
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.… — Eleanor Roosevelt
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked… — Robert Higgs
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have… — Abraham Lincoln
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits — Samuel Johnson
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ… — Charles C. Pixley
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the… — Arjun Makhijani
Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or… — Edward Bernays
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends… — Nellie Bly
Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's plan. As if… — John Calvin
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts… — Ellen G. White
I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be… — Martin Harris
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. — M. L. Stedman
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred… — Gabrielle Giffords
Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given. — Lysander Spooner
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed — Edward Snowden
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil

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