Quotes About Consent

According to the social compact tradition articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, government is legitimate because the people consent to it, thus agreeing in some sense to respect its determinations. But people can consent only because they have a basic right to decide whether or not to consent, a right that is not a mere privilege from the government.

The exchange of consent being given by the electric flash, they were thus married by telegraph.

How long can news function as a palliative for despair and counter space for products? It is so frustrating and sad to open a newspaper and find the news literally at the edges, like the embroidered hem of the real subject – advertisement. The media spectacle must not continue to direct its attention to the manufacture of consent, rather than debate with more than two sides, to the reinforcement of untruths, and a review of what else there is to buy.

But never again—and this was the true lesson of 1968, first for the Czechs but in due course for everyone else—never again would it be possible to maintain that Communism rested on popular consent, or the legitimacy of a reformed Party, or even the lessons of History.

The state is a matter of consent,' I heard old Master Tiraes instruct her as she sat at his feet. 'The king and the subjects all agree that one shall rule and others shall be ruled. Decisions taken by a king, therefore, bind his followers, but they cannot be forced too far, because then they will depose the king and seek another, better able to carry out their will.

Squares were good. Efficient. He approved of squares.

I may need your permission to kiss you, girl. But I don't need anyone's permission to love you

Ready? -Ready if you are.

Ik ben klaar als jij het bent.

even though I actually did not like to be touched, I just let it happen. I allowed it. It was fine.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Alton said. "Sure

No means so. Even if, at first, you thought you meant yes. Even if, at first, it was your fault. Even if, at first, you made yourself available.

Meg often slept with men she didn't want to sleep with: she didn't know how to say no. More precisely, she didn't know she was allowed to say no.

Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call.

I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.

There you go; seems to me you're right!

Lord Balon grunted. "Casterly Rock has never fallen." "Until now." Theon smiled. And how sweet that will be. His father did not return the smile. "So this is why Robb Stark sends you back to me, after so long? So you might win my consent to this plan of his?" "It is my plan, not Robb's," Theon said proudly. Mine, as the victory will be mine, and in time the

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.