Consent Quotes
Consent Quote of the day
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
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.
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.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things.
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.