Quotes About Consent

To a Westerner the anomaly of this—a man under a life sentence for treason working in a prison on the most secret scientific developments—is almost too much to comprehend. In the Soviet Union it was an accepted practice. Korolev was immensely valuable, but because he was so valuable, he was also dangerous. He consented to work because this way, at least, he got some rations, he was with his colleagues, and he was doing what he loved most of all.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract!

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Say stop, whenever you want to stop. Understand?" I nodded. "Do you want to stop now?" My head moved back and forth to the pillow. "Thank God.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

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

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.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

What is government but theft by consent?

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.

So I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out.