Quotes About Consent

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing 'Mungda.'

I will always support a vote. The constitution gives the president the right to appoint justices with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate does have the right to say no; they do not have the right to say nothing.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don't have a choice there. They can't decide not to fight.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

The fact was, the Senate's "advise and consent" was intended, from the start, to forestall the President from remaking the Court in his image. The Senate had, for most of its two hundred years, scrutinized the philosophy and politics of nominees—not just their competence, or honesty. And when a President picked a justice for reasons of ideology, it was the Senate's duty to examine that ideology.

It is agreed between us First, that we will never use this agency against each other. Secondly, that we will not use it against third parties without each other's consent. Thirdly, that we will not either of us communicate any information about Tube Alloys to third parties except by mutual consent.

He scowled at Jason. And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

Even if we all decided to define personhood to include fertilized eggs and embryos and fetuses, they would not have the right to use a woman's body against her will and at whatever cost to herself. Persons are not entitled to use one another like that: Even if I am the only person in the world who can save my child by donating a kidney, the decision is still mine to make.

He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery.

Because I don't want you coming against your will. That wouldn't be fair. I really want you to come, but if you said, Josie, I don't want to, then I'd say to Mom, okay, we can't have her, no way. But you do want to come, right?

Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.