Consent Quotes

Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

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

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Silence gives consent.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

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

Dissent without action is consent.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

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

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

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

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.

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

Silence always gives consent.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

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

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

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

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

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

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

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

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

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

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."

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.

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.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

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

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.