consent quotes

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.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

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

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

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

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.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

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