Consent Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Progress

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• For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

  Gordon Smith

  Years, Selling, Nickels

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• Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Reality, Men, Political

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• Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

  Cate Blanchett

  Law, Differences, Important

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• 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.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Cancer, Too Much

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.9, Franciscan Media

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• The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Engineering, Perception

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.83, Metropolitan Books

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• All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Honor

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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

  James Otis

  Men, Persons, Representation

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• The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• 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.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Family, Leadership, Wisdom

  "MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Offers Televised Apology for Romney Segment" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 04, 2014.

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• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Goes On

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, World, Mutual

  Jonathan Edwards, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1980). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Scientific and philosophical writings”

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• Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.

  Seth

  Phones, Trying, Letters

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doe, Genius, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1037, Delphi Classics

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• The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Agreement, Records, Want

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. January 28, 2008.

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• The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Spiritual, Years, Building Up

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Conclusion, My Own

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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

  George Bancroft

  Respect, Hair, Envy

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

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

  Rosa Parks

  Giving, Ready, Dies

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Foundation

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.193

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• The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
  equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Self, Voice

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Husband, Heart, Lovers

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