Consent Quote by Edward Coke Download Open image “Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.” — Edward Coke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consent
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience,… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated. — Ricardo Flores Magon Copy Share Image
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.” — Amy Hatvany Copy Share Image
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
