Consent Quotes

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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

  Bob McDonnell

  Abortion, Ears, Medical

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Silence

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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• For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Government, Slavery, Definitions

  The Drapier's Letters no. 4 (1724)

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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

  Motivational, Hurt, Choices

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• Dissent without action is consent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Action, Dissent

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• St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371

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• Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Taken, People, Silence

  "The Social Contract & Discourses".

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• Familiarity breeds consent.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Familiarity

  "In Her Day". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1976.

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• The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Grace

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• Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

  Frederick Buechner

  Powerful, Heart, Love Is

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• Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

  Leland Stanford

  Memorable, Men, Rights

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Engineering, Essence

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press

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• I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Law, Innovation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

  Howard Hughes

  Soccer, Way, Compromise

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• Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Government, Principles, Rehabilitation

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

  Edward Coke

  Coke

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• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  DeForest Soaries

  Voting, Principles, Breathe

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• I can never consent to being dictated to.

  John Tyler

  Patriotic, I Can

  Said during a Cabinet meeting, 1841.

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• 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

  Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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

  Mark Twain

  World, Authority, Fine Things

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.56, Createspace Independent Pub

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• 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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Common, Sin, Natural

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