Consent Quotes

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

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

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Your silence gives consent.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

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

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

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

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

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

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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