Tacit Consent Quotes

#1. I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

Cecily McMillan

#2. Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Michael Kinsley

#3. Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#4. I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.

Lynsey Addario

#5. All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

#6. I'm of Irish descent, so I'm practically flammable in sunlight, and there's nothing quite as vicious as the cruel dry heat of the southern Nevada desert.

Bethany Walker

#7. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Alexandra Robbins

#8. I don't want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction.

Jim Jefferies

#9. In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Maimonides

#10. All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#11. It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here ...

Miley Cyrus

#12. I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

Sharon Stone