Consent Quotes

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.

  Ken Schoolland

  Life, Sacrifice, Goal

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• Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

  Bob McDonnell

  Abortion, Ears, Medical

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Silence

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Wish, Taught, Knows

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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• Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

  Andre Gide

  Single, Being Single, Venture

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• To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Life, Faith, Prayer

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• Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

  William Penn

  Men, Rights, Views

  First version of "Frame of Government", April 25, 1682.

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• The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, America, Profound

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, United States, Dollars

  "Let's Abolish Government".

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• 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.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Exercise, Men, Natural

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  Basil Bunting

  Temptation, Age, Madness

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  William Ellery Channing

  Confidence, Depressing, Attitude

  "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838

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• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Philosophical, Catholic

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• In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Leadership, Thinking, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Courage, Men

  Joseph Conrad, Book House (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1870, Book House

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• Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

  Josiah Royce

  Respect, Agreement, World

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.352, Courier Dover Publications

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• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Reign, Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Guidance, Reason

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• I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Kings, Government, Simplicity

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.371, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

  Henry Mayhew

  Aggravation, Sake, Nightfall

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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