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Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. — Lex Allen

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

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance. — Helen M. Luke

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA. — Arthur Caplan

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. — Chuck Grassley

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

Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you. — Guy Finley

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology. — Amy Hatvany

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave. — Robert Zaretsky

Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent. — Maggy Mae

No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: "Tyler, wait! — Amy Hatvany

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent. — Martin Luther

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. — Lysander Spooner

Fate does not always seek our consent. — Zedd

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. — Susan B. Anthony

There was no going back and that was exactly what she craved.
Deep breath.
"Consent. — Jennifer Kacey

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing. — Tom Rob Smith

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. — Edward S. Herman

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

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent. — Jeff Merkley

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. — Miranda July

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. — Algernon Sidney

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed. — Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. — Josemaria Escriva

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault

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

The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. — Baruch Spinoza

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent ... They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. — Cormac McCarthy

Your consent is your character. — Shannon L. Alder

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. — Thomas Merton

Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats. — Rafael Cruz

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. — Thomas Jefferson

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent. — Saint Augustine

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it. — Rebecca Skloot

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. — Baruch Spinoza

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

Love doesn't need consent or someone's approval. It is as inevitable as life and death. — Samreen Ahsan

God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us. — R.C. Sproul

I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong. — Amy Hatvany

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent? — James Otis

Luck is often just skill expressing itself without the brain's consent. — R.M. ArceJaeger

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life? — Sue Rodriguez

What is government but theft by consent? — Scott Lynch

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You're going to kidnap me again?"
Adrian tried a smile. "No, I'll ask you if you *want* to be kidnapped again. — Molly Ringle

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent. — Wayne Dyer

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. — Samuel Johnson

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. — R.C. Sproul

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never. — Rosa Parks

He who is silent is seen to consent. — Claire North

The manufacturing of consent*2 is now endemic to modern technological societies. — Kingsley L. Dennis

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. — M.L. Stedman

Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm. — Rachel Vail

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. — Tacitus

Silence is the door of consent. — Lybian Proverb

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will. — Billy Graham

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent. — James Otis

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. — Albert Einstein

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent. — Jamais Cascio

To react is one's choice. — Toba Beta

Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations. — Faith Baldwin

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding

Your silence gives consent. — Plato

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

Dissent without action is consent. — Henry David Thoreau

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — Mark Twain

To say nothing means to give one's consent. — Asne Seierstad

Consent has rough edges. — Ian McEwan

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed — Edward Snowden

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

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form. — Mark Hart

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent. — Cee Lo Green

I couldn't let anyone make me feel unworthy without my consent — Nicole Williams

In answer, he bent his head toward hers.
"Wait." She ducked away from the kiss.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing unless you want it. — Tessa Dare

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. — William Lloyd Garrison

The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now. — Amy Hatvany

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits — Samuel Johnson

You're giving me fucking consent to stalk you? Oh, slave ... — Alaska Angelini

The age of consent for sex should be 12 years old. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People can only make you inferior with your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent. — Terry Brooks

Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion. — Erich Fromm

You're 60
But honestly it doesn't show
Mind you, you reached the age of consent
About 50,000 consents ago! — John Walter Bratton

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. — Arthur C. Nielsen

It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden) — Nicholas Bella

Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent! — Jerry Ring

The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation. — Charles Baxter

Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. — Pierre Laval

I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18 — Jill Lepore

God is a great gatekeeper. I find Him opening and closing it before me, against my will and often without my consent. — Farzaneh Doosti

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love. — Simone Weil

I can not travel into my past,
without consent of the future me. — Toba Beta