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Consent Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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;…
- Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as…
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
More Consent Quotes
- Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. — William Shakespeare
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by… — William Ellery Channing
- Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray… — Bruno Jasienski
- The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent… — Woodrow Wilson
- Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness… — John G. Lake
- This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln
- Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule… — Ferdinand de Saussure