Top 80 Consent Quotes

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.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

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.

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing ‘Mungda.’

I take my ‘advice and consent’ duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.

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

‘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.

Labour’s task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

It’s sad that many don’t realise the need for consent in relationships, and this can be attributed to lack of education, male chauvinism and lack of open mindedness.

IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

I just don’t believe that ‘no’ is always a final answer – unless we’re talking about consent.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

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

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don’t have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you really want to make a difference, stop eating fish.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

We’re going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now, the goals of technology are not aligned with our goals as humans. We need technology that empowers us to make the life choices we want to make.

No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

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

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

I think ‘Normal People’ is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you’re confronted by the police, very few – either the foolish or the very brave – will refuse consent when confronted by the police.

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.

It’s not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

‘Man and Superman,’ first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw’s greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.

We’ve fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they’re surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

What I’ve said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn’t regulate through litigation.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

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

Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy – it’s hell and it’s agony. Posting photos of someone that you don’t have the consent for is illegal, and that’s a huge, huge issue. We need to be teaching consent, and that’s not just for photos.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its ‘advise and consent’ power over federal judges.

Most of you probably already know this but for those who don’t, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field of salacious photos released without consent.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

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.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

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

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.

Many people in this world are not raised to understand the concept of consent, in all walks of life, and it’s important that abusers of consent not be treated as victims when they are rightfully exposed.

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

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government – the executive – has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

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

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

Our ideas of consent have evolved and changed because feminism has pushed the boundaries.

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.

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

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of 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.

Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and resistance.

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

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

I will continue to be a voice for Nevadans in the Senate, opposing Yucca Mountain and working to identify viable alternatives for long-term repositories in areas that are proven safe and whose communities consent to that storage.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

It is a president’s constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate’s constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

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

State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be governed – the ‘deal’ between citizen and state.

We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the governed, with our rights and the government’s limitations clearly outlined.

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can ‘the consent of the governed’ be given if the right to vote be denied?

Rather than assuming Terms of Service are equivalent to informed consent, platforms should offer opt-in settings where users can choose to join experimental panels. If they don’t opt in, they aren’t forced to participate.

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.

Let me be the first to say I can’t remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that ‘no’ meant ‘no,’ but that’s it.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn’t consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done – unable to play except from paper.