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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. -- George Washington
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -- Helen Keller
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. -- Jean Rostand
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. -- Baruch Spinoza
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. -- Jonathan Swift
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. -- Leland Stanford
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. -- Thomas Hobbes
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. -- Plato
Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm. -- Rachel Vail
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. -- Arthur Nielsen
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. -- Edward Coke
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. -- Herodotus
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable. -- Jock Sturges
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. -- Tom G. Palmer
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. -- Pierre Laval
As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies. -- 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 and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions. -- Noam Chomsky
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. -- Andrew Jackson
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win. -- Nate Parker
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. -- John Entwistle
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. -- Matt Blunt
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. -- Richard V. Allen
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions. -- Noam Chomsky
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. -- Mary Lou Williams
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. -- Charles Dickens
The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern. -- Edward Gibbon
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. -- Susan B. Anthony
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. -- Saint Augustine
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. -- John Jay
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. -- Alexander Hamilton
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. -- Howard Hughes
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. -- Joseph Conrad
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. -- Baruch Spinoza
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. -- Noam Chomsky
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. -- Albert Camus
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. -- Jan Hus
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. -- Vince Lombardi
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. -- Lysander Spooner
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. -- Henry Mayhew
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict. -- Charles B. Rangel
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. -- Lysander Spooner
I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it. -- Suresh Raina
Silence gives consent. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Familiarity breeds consent. -- Rita Mae Brown
Silence always gives consent ... -- Myrtle Reed
Your consent is your character. -- Shannon L. Alder
Dissent without action is consent. -- Henry David Thoreau
Fate does not seek our consent. -- Terry Goodkind
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. -- Miranda July
Fate does not always seek our consent. -- Zedd
What is government but theft by consent? -- Scott Lynch
Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. -- Saint Augustine
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I can never consent to being dictated to. -- John Tyler
Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] -- Pope Boniface VIII
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
People can only make you inferior with your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Objective Reality and Truth requires neither ones consent nor dissent." -- R. Alan Woods
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. -- M.L. Stedman
You're giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave... -- Alaska Angelini
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. -- Will Durant
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. -- Patricia Ireland
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. -- Cormac McCarthy
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone. -- Andre Gide
No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent. -- James Otis
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God. -- Euripides
Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people. -- Thomas Hooker
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? -- Basil Bunting
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is -- Maria Isabel Barreno
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. -- Gary Shteyngart
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits -- Samuel Johnson
I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never. -- Rosa Parks
Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent? -- James Otis
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed -- Edward Snowden
He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it. -- Charles Spurgeon
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us. -- R. C. Sproul
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent. -- Wayne Dyer
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life. -- Robert Browning
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent. -- John Bunyan
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. -- Tacitus
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. -- Arthur Nielsen
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom. -- Joe Bean
If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent. -- CeeLo Green
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. -- Aaron Hill
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed -- Walter E. Williams
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. -- James Warburg
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. -- Roger Williams
When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want. -- Rob Lowe
The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent. -- Jamais Cascio
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. -- William Lloyd Garrison
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. -- Aldo Leopold
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. -- Albert Camus
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication. -- T. D. Jakes
Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine. -- Frank Oski
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. -- Simone Weil
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. -- Al Franken
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? -- Elizabeth Kostova
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. -- DeForest Soaries
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. -- Thomas Jefferson
You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago! -- John Walter Bratton
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To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. -- Talleyrand
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything. -- Alexander Moody Stuart
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. -- John Fletcher
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. -- Albert Camus
If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life? -- Sue Rodriguez
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. -- Pierre Corneille

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