Consent Quotes

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

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states' rights rhetoric.

The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

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

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.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

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'.

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

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

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.

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.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Six women have come forward that say Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them without their consent. This proves he would be a hands-on governor.

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

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

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

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

The order of things consents to virtue.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.