Consent Quote by Scott Lynch Download Open image “What is government but theft by consent?” — Scott Lynch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consent Government Politics Theft
“What is government but theft by consent? You’ll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
“Please, boy. Let’s not start out with either of us insulting the other’s intelligence. There are only three people in life you can never… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they’re lying—it seems they never die at all.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“ESPARA, FORMERLY a seat of prestige only one step below Therim Pel itself, had descended from its imperial years the way some men and… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets,” said Sabetha, “than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day. — Scott Lynch 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… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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
