When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.
This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.
"All men are created equal. " "Government by consent of the governed. " "Give me liberty or give me death. " And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Any change in customs. . . takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
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.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil. . . [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of. . . Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.
Silence always gives consent.
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
The lady. . . is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.