Consent Quotes

When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

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

What is government but theft by consent?

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

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.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.

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

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: “Tyler, wait!

I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Your consent is your character.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

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

To react is one's choice.

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads