I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
What is government but theft by consent?
We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
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.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?
Fate does not seek our consent.
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Better that the whole world should turn against you. . . than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of. . . the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another. . . . Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
I can never consent to being dictated to.
I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
