Consent Quotes

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.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

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.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

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.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Familiarity breeds consent.

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

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

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

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.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

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.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

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.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.