Consent Quotations | Page 2

He's there to offer expertise, to explain options and to keep explaining until everything is clearly understood. But the patient, sitting on the examining table in a paper gown with the wind whipping around his knees, is the only person in the room with a decision to make. As such, he makes the decision and gives consent based on the information, which includes risks and benefits weighed against his personal values.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

I am not going to apologize for saying that society is complicit in these fires, ... The ones that should apologize are the people that produce, tolerate and consent to these fires.

I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.

Silence always gives consent ...

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

All students, 18 and over, have to sign consent to release information about their health records.

The effect of this decision is that the FTP is binding on all of the members of ICC, including BCCI. Any attempt by a member to amend it unilaterally without the consent of the ICC executive board is invalid.

The companies' flagrant and contemptuous disregard of a binding consent decree is wholly unacceptable,

The circumstances of the event left Mr. McCowen with no choice but to give the DNA, which made his consent involuntary under the law.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

The matter before the court was whether Microsoft could be held in contempt for violating a consent decree entered in 1995. The court denied the Justice Department's petition for contempt; the case should have ended there. But on its own initiative, the court proceeded to treat the matter as a tying case and, without giving Microsoft notice or an opportunity to defend itself, issued a preliminary injunction.

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

Fate does not seek our consent.

What is government but theft by consent?

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Familiarity breeds 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.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

never let anyone let make you feel inferior without your consent

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

My brave fellows, ... you have done all I asked you to do and more than could be reasonably expected. But this country is at stake, your wives, your homes and everything you hold dear. You have borne yourself up with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty and this country which you probably could never do under any other circumstances.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Dissent without action is consent.

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back -- with quiet courage and common sense; with undying faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours, for the future belongs to the free.

Silence gives consent.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

The order of things consents to virtue.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.