Consent Quote by Noam Chomsky

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair…

— Noam Chomsky

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them…

— Noam Chomsky

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

— Edward Bernays

Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Walter Lippmann

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual…

— Noam Chomsky

“by any means without the prior written consent”

— Nancy Bush

In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free.…

— Rei Kawakubo

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

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of…

— Margaret Thatcher

“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common by the…

— Peter Vallentyne

“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there is no…

— Anonymous