Consent Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Good, Enough, Another

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

Feels, Impulse, Soar

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.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George Washington

Made, Common, Laws

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

Control, Win, Leader

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

Happiness, Share, Forgiven

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Reality, Revolution, Give

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato

Silence, Shall, Assume

Your silence gives consent.
Plato

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Government, Reason, Slavery

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

Help, Save, Created

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

Taken, Advantage, Steal

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

Change, Subject, Exists

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

Good, Woman, Enough

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.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Working, Lives

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership, Help, Thinking

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.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Feelings, Cannot

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

Power, Society, Knowledge

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

Good, Bad, Cannot

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay

Power, Earth, Property

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

Law, Opinion, Mankind

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

Put, Once, Concession

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel

State, Compulsion

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille

Happiness, Live, Honor

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad

Courage, Woman, Last

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
Diablo Cody

Time, Hide, Stunt

Cats don't like change without their consent.
Roger Caras

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

Respect, Envy, Common

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

Alone, Free, Reason

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