Consent Quotes - Page 8

• Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Communication, Law, Community

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.71, Columbia University Press

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Rights, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, because this thing would be everything. Nature is not a creature, because this creature would be God. But one can consider it as an immense vital power, which encompasses all, which animates all, and which, subordinated to the power of the first Being, has begun to act only by his order, and still acts only by his concourse or consent ... Time, space and matter are its means, the universe its object, motion and life its goal.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  God, Nature, Mean

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• Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.

  John Dickinson

  Being Free, Liberty, May

  "The Writings of John Dickinson".

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• I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.

  Ilona Andrews

  Waiting, Criminals, May

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• In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

  Saint Augustine

  Sheep, Miracle, Catholic

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Cities, Issues, Community

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

  Richard Paul Evans

  School, Should Have, Lightning

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Nov 29, 2011

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• There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, World, Natural

  A Very Easy Death

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• I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

  Jo Brand

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

  David Trimble

  Principles, Profile, Blair

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Judging, Advice

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Evil, Abuse

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• What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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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

  Giving Up, Fighting, Animal

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells." Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage." "I can't imagine what's stopping her. I don't suppose you've considered being less munificent with your love?" "Would you marry me, Fire, if I slept in no one's bed but yours?" He knew the answer to that, but it didn't hurt to remind him. "No, and I should find my bed quite cramped.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Archer, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.64, Penguin

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• 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!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Able, Illusion, Situation

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• There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved, especially, there's a lot of sexual assault, and a lot of confusion about that. So, we need to focus a lot more on what consent is and on the importance of affirmative consent.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Men, Confusion, Focus

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Self, Achievement, Looks

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3538, ShandonPress

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• This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Community, Police, Looks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Taken, Men

  "The Rights of the Colonists". The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, history.hanover.edu. November 20, 1772.

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• We`re looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we`re looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Reform, Looking Forward, Decree

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Here's what consent is at Ohio State. After you and your partner decide that you're gonna make out or have sex, you agree to do it, then you have to agree on why. "Consent is the act of knowingly, actively and voluntarily agreeing explicitly to engage in sexual activity. Consent must be freely given and can be withdrawn at any time."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Ohio State, States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

  Tariq Ali

  Democracy, Oppression, Function

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