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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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• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.38, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

  Change, Civilization, Existence

  "What is Civilization?". Ladies' Home Journal, Volume LXIII, January 1946.

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• Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

  Jean Rostand

  Greatness, Order, Gains

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

  Herodotus

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Our World, Uprising

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

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• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

  Laura Ingraham

  Thinking, People, Congress

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". "Monday's Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Motivational, Agreement

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• Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Independence, Unalienable Rights

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• 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 Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, World, Rules Of Life

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

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• Be at Peace with Everyone - No one is capable of making you upset without your consent, so if you begin practicing the intention to be authentic and peaceful with everyone, you connect to peace itself- and gain the power to change the energy of your relationships with family and friends.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational Family, Upset, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Feb 09, 2011

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• The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we must return, each of us individually accepting his ignorance and loneliness, his sin and weakness, and, most difficult of all, consenting to wait in the dark and even to love the waiting

  Helen M. Luke

  Love, Loneliness, Ignorance

  Helen M. Luke (1992). “Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays”, Morning Light Press

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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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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• 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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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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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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• Dissent without action is consent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Action, Dissent

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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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• 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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• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Women, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Familiarity breeds consent.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Familiarity

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

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