Consent Quote by Edward Bernays

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

“Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for…

— Amine Zidouh

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

— Walter Lippmann

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it,…

— John Adams

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

— Edward Snowden

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which…

— Lysander Spooner

“Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent!”

— Jerry Ring

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The…

— Edward Snowden

“To view freedom as that which grants us unlimited permission to create our own ethics is to utilize freedom as the most effective tool…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can never consent to being dictated to.

— John Tyler

“One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and…

— Chad Kultgen

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by…

— Thomas Sowell