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'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.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926) -
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
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Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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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.
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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
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No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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