Quotes About Informed Consent

#1. Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Bob McDonnell

#2. Subjects in the experiments were sometimes unwitting civilians. At other times they were soldiers, prisoners, mental patients, sex offenders, cancer patients and other individuals who were unwitting, or who could not give meaningful informed consent.

Colin A. Ross

#3. 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 McChesney

#4. Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Frank Herbert

#5. No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

Joe Biden

#6. Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.

Seanan McGuire

#7. I don't like corpses in that way unless they've been reanimated," said Jack. "Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators." "I wish that didn't make so much sense,

Seanan McGuire

#8. When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

Jock Sturges

#9. Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Frank Oski

#10. I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Adriana Petryna

#11. I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Greg Abbott

#12. I ask is there anything with a little kick to drink. And this old lady says to me, We don't approve of alcohol. And I says, Well, ma'am, we need to remember Jesus did turn water to wine. And she says, And we're none too crazy about that stunt, neither.

Smith Henderson

#13. Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse
no matter the people
no matter the language
Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one
long enough
hard enough
You will find one truth.

Mike Mignola

#14. is critical for that relationship to be consensual. You must give your partner the opportunity to make an informed decision to be in a relationship with you. If you lie or withhold critical information, you remove your partner's ability to consent to be in the relationship.

Franklin Veaux

#15. Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

Tito Jackson

#16. And they must work out a lot. Nice butts. I mean before they went all furry. But don't tell them I said that

Karen Lynch

#17. Those who think govern those who labor.

Marshall Sylver

#18. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Edward Snowden

#19. I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Frank Ocean

#20. If I've learned something from all this crap ... it's that living anywhere other than in the moment is a mistake ... The future is subjective.

Myra McEntire

#21. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain