Consent Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.”

— Lex Allen

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

— Said Musa

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

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 sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

— Roger Williams

“Not a spoon clinked against a mug, not a creamer was popped, peeled and opened, not a breath. It was as though something else…

— Louise Penny

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

— Thomas Hooker

The Government and the police are only able to do their jobs with the consent of the people.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these…

— Charlamagne Tha God

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

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen…

— Anne Brontë

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

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

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson