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• Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Animal, People

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Son, Men, May

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• How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?

  Don DeLillo

  Morning, Real, Night

  Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (1998). “White Noise: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fate does not seek our consent.

  Terry Goodkind

  Fate, Doe

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.301, Head of Zeus

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• As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Recognition, Theme, Importance

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible men," as advocates of "manufacture of consent" have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Rights, People

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

  Noam Chomsky

  Practice, Sacred, Privilege

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Gone, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.50, The Floating Press

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• I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.43

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

  O. Henry

  Past, Men, Gloves

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

  John Oliver

  Finding Yourself, Age, Poverty

  "John Oliver Explains How the Chicken Industry Systematically Screws Over Impoverished Farmers" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

  Edward Kennedy

  Issues, Judging, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Responsibility, Justice, Advice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

  Michael Beckwith

  Pain, Moving, Giving

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

  Nate Parker

  Girl, Dog, Cheating

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

  Nate Parker

  Kissing, Say Anything, Stopping

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

  Primo Levi

  Skeletons, Civilization, Stories

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

  Anne Bishop

  Land, People, Misunderstood

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• He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Reflection, Light

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Winning, Shining

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• Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

  Miranda July

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Drunk, Loser

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• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Business, Feet

  "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.

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• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

  Norman Douglas

  Reality, Mind, Sometimes

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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