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consent

«In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.»
«I can never consent to being dictated to.»
Author: John Tyler (President) | Keywords: consent, dictated
«I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.»
«Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals»
«Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.»
«Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.»
«Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.»
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
«If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.»
«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.»