| "He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake." »Unknown |
| "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." »Helen Keller |
| "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous |
| "You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." »William Blake |
| "The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage." »Joseph Conrad |
| "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." »Vince Lombardi |
| "The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been." »George Frost Kennan |
| "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman |
| "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "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." »Maurice Godelier |
| "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...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." »Charles Dickens |
| "The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear." »Felix Adler |
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