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  • Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  • Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission

  • Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

    T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
  • The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

    Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub
  • The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

    Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859
  • As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

    "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.
  • Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

    Men   Steps   World  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books
  • Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

    Sleep   Men   Fire  
  • St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

    Men   Temptation   Desire  
    Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371
  • All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

    Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub
  • Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

  • Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.

  • Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  • And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

    "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.
  • I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3261, e-artnow
  • This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

    People   Waiting   Earth  
    Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio
  • Six women have come forward that say Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them without their consent. This proves he would be a hands-on governor.

    Hands   Would Be   Six  
    "The Recall Show With Jay Leno" by Sharon Waxman, www.washingtonpost.com. October 09, 2003.
  • Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

  • Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

    Men   Goes On   Want  
    "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.
  • He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

    Jesus   Over You   Reign  
  • Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

    Mind   Genius   Wealth  
    Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com
  • The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

  • The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

    Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”
  • He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

    Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics
  • A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

  • I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute
  • Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?

    Lying   War   People  
    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.165, Oxford University Press, USA
  • We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.9
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