Top 100 Quotes About Consent
#1. Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
#2. They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.
Assata Shakur
#3. Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
William Shakespeare
#4. Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.
Seanan McGuire
#6. She was inwardly delighted, but didn't express her consent. Perhaps this is woman's way of making love. They don't confess easily.
Tarif Naaz
#7. He came around to open my door and held out his hand to me. The gesture said more than what the eye could see. He could have easily lifted me out of the car without me being able to do anything to stop him but instead he was asking for my consent. To accept what was about the happen.
B.B. Reid
#8. We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
Mark X.
#9. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.
Horace Greeley
#10. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#12. One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
Kyle Chandler
#14. I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
Samuel Johnson
#15. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Howard Hughes
#16. The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.
Arundhati Roy
#17. I hated him. Hated every terrible wonderful emotion he inspired within me. Hated how completely and perfectly he mastered me. Hated how he could be absolutely brutal and yet still required my consent. Hated how much I could never stop loving him.
Laurelin Paige
#18. The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.
John Oliver
#19. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#20. With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.
Helen Keller
#21. The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
Tariq Ali
#22. Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
Euripides
#23. By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
Tacitus
#24. You're giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave ...
Alaska Angelini
#25. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
R.C. Sproul
#26. Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#27. In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
Theodore H. White
#28. When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne Bronte
#29. Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.
Billy Graham
#31. The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
Rebecca Skloot
#32. I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Zebulon Pike
#33. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
Judith Lewis Herman
#34. You kill by consent, every time you let something ... pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#35. The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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R.C. Sproul
#36. The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#37. Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
#38. The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
Edward Bernays
#39. The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
Martin Luther
#40. Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George Washington
#41. If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
#42. Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
Josiah Royce
#43. The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
Eric Van Lustbader
#44. Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
George Will
#45. Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee
William C. Davis
#46. I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
Lady Gregory
#47. My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
Georgette Heyer
#48. Because any Dom knows that the submissive is the one in control. He might wield the crop or the candle wax or the rope, but she holds the reins. Nothing happens without her consent.
Blue Kincaid
#49. This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly.
Thomas Merton
#51. I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
Shelley Winters
#53. No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith ... every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are
Brigham Young
#54. If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones
#56. Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
John Locke
#57. Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
John Prebble
#58. Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary
Timothy Leary
#59. He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.
Chaim Potok
#60. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
#61. Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
Jerry Bridges
#62. No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
#63. Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds
it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves
Wilkie Collins
#64. This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
William Jennings Bryan
#65. We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?
Pope Francis
#66. The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.
Charles Baxter
#67. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
James Otis
#68. We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.
James Warburg
#69. Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
#70. PROBABILITY BY LIA PURPURA Most coincidents are not miraculous, but way more common than we think - it's the shiver of noticing being central in a sequence of events that makes so much seem wild and rare - because what if it wasn't? Astonishment's nothing without your consent.
Anonymous
#71. This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
Jefferson Davis
#73. Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.
Janet Bode
#74. It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
Plotinus
#75. But it cannot be done to you without your consent. If you permit it to be done, you you deserve it.
Ayn Rand
#76. Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
James Otis
#77. Late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.
Glenn Beck
#78. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
Chuck Grassley
#80. Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
Gary Bauer
#81. Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman.
Lysander Spooner
#82. Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
Francis Bacon
#83. An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
#85. Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Edward Coke
#86. Six women have come forward that say Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them without their consent. This proves he would be a hands-on governor.
Jay Leno
#87. Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
Charles E. Wilson
#88. As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
Josemaria Escriva
#89. Your silence gives consent.
Plato
#90. A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine
#92. Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Bill Vaughan
#93. Check it out. She's scandalously popular, insanely beautiful, and obviously in the middle of some emotional shoot-out to consent to date the human Tator Tot.
David Bischoff
#94. Without 'consent' in any human interactions, there's an ethical violation.
Henry Johnson Jr
#95. He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
#96. God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
R.C. Sproul
#97. It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.
Peter Kreeft
#99. Nobody can steal my inner beauty, tranquility, and peace without my consent.
Debasish Mridha
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