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Consent Quotes

I can never consent to being dictated to.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Said during a Cabinet meeting, 1841.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

"Freedom or death". Emmeline Pankhurst's Speech in Hartford, Connecticut, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 1913.

Silence always gives consent.

Myrtle Reed (1905). “The Master's Violin”

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

Jonathan Edwards, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1980). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Scientific and philosophical writings”

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

"Le Cid". Tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), December 1636.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

"Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

Familiarity breeds consent.

"In Her Day". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1976.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.198, Simon and Schuster