Consent Quotes - page 14

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given. (Lysander Spooner)
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. View quote
Lysander Spooner
That those who will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to resist their demands in the future. View quote
Lysander Spooner
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party. View quote
Lysander Spooner
To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage. View quote
Francisco Luís Gomes
Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you. View quote
Guy Finley
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. View quote
Charles Dickens
Complaints about the damage done to our "democracy" by outsiders are worse than silly. Such damage pales compared to what we Americans have done to a compact rooted in the consent of the governed and the drastically limited and delimited powers of those who govern. View quote
Ilana Mercer
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers. View quote
Gordon Smith
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Come, woo me, woo me for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. (William Shakespeare)
This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. View quote
Mark Twain
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. View quote
Mark Twain
No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. View quote
Red Symons
Neither the free will of the people nor the right of self-determination nor even the consent of a majority of convinced National-Socialists can be cited as justification for the obliteration of Austria after 1938. View quote
Kurt Schuschnigg
When I was in Cairo, shortly after I was elected President, I said that all governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. View quote
Barack Obama
As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. The founders trusted us with this awesome authority. We should trust ourselves with it, too. Because when we don't, when we turn away and get discouraged and abdicate that authority, we grant our silent consent to someone who'll gladly claim it. View quote
Barack Obama
I was also interested in what it's like to experience in a really vivid and authentic-seeming way agency and choice in a circumstance that you might later in your life view completely differently, because as much as you were experiencing agency and choice, you were actually in a radically disempowered situation you weren't even experienced enough to recognize. That's why I think consent is such a complicated issue. View quote
Susan Choi
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. View quote
Vladimir Putin
During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
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. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Constitutional freedom, as the right of every citizen to have to obey no other law than that to which he has given his consent or approval. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The exclusive right to declare war, the duty to advise and consent on the part of the Senate, the power of the purse on the part of the House are ample authority for the legislative branch and should be jealously guarded. View quote
Gerald Ford