Quotes About Consent

though this can scarce happen amongst that part of mankind that have consented to the use of money.

You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.

Never say No when the world says Aye

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us. We'd at least, by then, developed the tech to fix our brains so we could accept emotionally what logic should have showed us.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy is key to a nonconfrontational relationship.

The bipeds plot. Clever, delicious bipeds, random and amusing. They are eager for change, ravenous for it, for the antithesis of Consent.

Government is either imposed with force, or it derives from the will of the governed. But it's a social contract, right? It exists simply because people say it does. It's not a thing you can touch.

Authority derives from the consent of the governed, is what I'm saying," Singer continued, as if we hadn't been derailed by the threat of people with guns and a grudge. "And that consent is derived from consensus. Which is never universal.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

That's good, to be in the habit of saying sure.

The United States (in the person of Wilson) was now in the habit of dictating unilaterally what happened in the world without asking anyone's consent, and then letting its Allies catch up.

The U.S. president's consent to the Versailles Treaty did more to damage his reputation among his fellow liberals than anything else he did that crucial year. It also sowed the seeds for a bitterness among Germans that would ripen into the political movement that led to Adolf Hitler and World War II.

if refusing to consent to a treaty that was flawed, badly conceived, and in many ways unjust was a betrayal of American boys' sacrifice on the battlefield, then why had we sent them there in the first place?

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

The voice of Nature will consent, whether the voice of man do or no.

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.

Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the governed, with our rights and the government's limitations clearly outlined.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.