Consent Quotes

I can never consent to being dictated to.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

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

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

Fate does not always seek our consent.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

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

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

Dissent without action is 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.

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

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

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

Silence always gives consent.

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

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

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

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

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

Familiarity breeds consent.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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

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

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

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

Fate does not seek our consent.

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

What is government but theft by consent?

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

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

The order of things consents to virtue.

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

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

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

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

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