Consent Quotes - Page 12

• 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?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Sleep, Men, Fire

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• Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.

  John Locke

  Men, Should Have, People

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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• MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

  John Locke

  Independent, Men, Political

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 8, sec. 95 (1690)

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• Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

  Ernestine Rose

  Hands, Giving, Silence

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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  Rafael Cruz

  Obamacare, Trying, Rams

  "WATCH: Ted Cruz’s Dad Calls US a 'Christian Nation,' Says Obama Should Go 'Back to Kenya'" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2013.

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• All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

  Lucy Stone

  Taken, Law, Land

  Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.

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• Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Community, Chance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

  George Mason

  Mother, Country, Taken

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• Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.

  John Robbins

  Two, Ingredients, Campaigns

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.4, Conari Press

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Fancy, Seems, Censure

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Giving, Silence

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• As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Long, Unjust

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• Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Lasting Change, Effort

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Robert Browning

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• People can only make you inferior with your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Inferiors

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• There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Way, Righteousness

  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.721

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• The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

  Helen M. Luke

  Agony, Ego, Misery

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• Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

  Guy Finley

  World, Should, Turns

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Oct 14, 2012

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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

  Jeff Merkley

  Talking, Two, Way

  "Sen. Jeff Merkley on the filibuster deal: ‘There are two pieces I'm excited about’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Long, May, Obstacles

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• Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Heart, Mean, Men

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