Best 100 quotes in «consent quotes» category

What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.

Without 'consent' in any human interactions, there's an ethical violation.

Why can’t I have both? Haan? I want the consent part but I also want to be taken by surprise. How hard is that? What’s wrong with a girl wanting to be Goslinged and kissed, damn it!

You’re going to kidnap me again?” Adrian tried a smile. “No, I’ll ask you if you *want* to be kidnapped again.

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

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

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.

Dissent without action is consent.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

Fate does not seek our consent.

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

Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

Familiarity breeds consent.

Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'

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

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

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

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

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Silence always gives consent.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

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

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

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

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

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

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

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.