82 Consent Quotes for You to Enjoy

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

You No-One Feel Make Without Inferior Your Consent

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Saint Augustine

Will Our He Without Us Created Help Who Consent Save

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller

Never Feels Impulse Soar Consent Creep

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent. Plato

Silence Assume Must Gives Sure May Your Therefore Consent

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. Lysander Spooner

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We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! John McCain

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost

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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. Lysander Spooner

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift

Government Definition Without Governed Very Reason Consent Slavery

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

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It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. Mitch McConnell

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant

Change Civilization Without Geological Subject Exists Notice Consent

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, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln

God Freedom Long Others Those Must Would Would-Be Retain He Deny Just Cannot Themselves Who Deserve Consent Slave

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus

Happiness You Only Share Generously Forgiven Them Successes Your Consent

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. DeForest Soaries

Life Voting Principle Governed Breathes Act Foundational Consent

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. Lysander Spooner

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Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, 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? Susan B. Anthony

Vote Natural First Paragraph Given How Governed Ballot Denied Very Declaration Natural Right Assertion Right Here Consent

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. Vince Lombardi

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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. Alexander Hamilton

You Steal Taken Advantage Without Affections Sensibility Should Consent

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. John Jay

Property Power Our Earth Take Without Us Right Consent

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. John McCain

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