#consent

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? ↗

— Basil Bunting

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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. ↗

— John Jay

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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122) ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#civilization #consent #contract-for-service #government #politics

I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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Cats don't like change without their consent. ↗

— Roger Caras

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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. ↗

— Edward Coke

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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. ↗

— Robert Frost

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