Consent Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. View quote
Robert E. Lee
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Swift
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. View quote
Helen Keller
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. View quote
Will Durant
I can be forced to live without happiness, But I will never consent to live without honor. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. (Joseph Conrad)
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. View quote
William Penn
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. View quote
John Jay
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. View quote
George Bancroft
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. View quote
Franz Kafka
This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, can not long retain it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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. View quote
Henry Mayhew
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. View quote
Leland Stanford
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold. View quote
Simone Weil
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. (Alexander Hamilton)
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? View quote
Susan B. Anthony
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. View quote
Emil Cioran