Consent Quotes
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln -
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
William Shakespeare
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
"You manifestly wrong even the poorest ploughman, if you demand not his free consent."
Charles I of England -
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
Nate Parker -
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine -
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Thomas Hobbes -
Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
Viktor Orban
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
Rafael Cruz -
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 -
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 -
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
R. C. Sproul -
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.
R. C. Sproul -
Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.
Gayle Rubin
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Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.
Nancy Farmer -
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
Martin Luther -
Familiarity breeds consent.
Rita Mae Brown -
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
William Shakespeare -
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
Abraham Lincoln -
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
Epictetus -
only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.
Jack Straw -
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Marian Wright Edelman -
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
Miranda July