#Consent Quotes

“Have you not heard it said full oft,A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

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

“No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.”

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”

“It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.”

“To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.”

“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.”

“A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.”

“Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.”

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

“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”

“Your very silence shows you agree.”

“What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”