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.
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.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
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.
Silence gives consent. [Lat. , Qui tacet, consentire videtur. ]
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [. . . ] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.
Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible men," as advocates of "manufacture of consent" have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
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.