consent quotes

The engineering of consent.

- Edward Bernays
  His definition of public relations, the field he was credited with founding. The Engineering of Consent.

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

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza117.

I was the last to consent to the separation, but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.

-George III
  Letter to  John  Adams, first US  Ambassador to England, 1  Jun.

No man isgood enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln
  Speech, Peoria,16 Oct.

IwasbornaTory, amaTory, and shall dieaTory.Inever yet heard that it was any part of the faith of aTory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs that his country has evolved over the centuries, and mergethem with those of eight other nations into a new-made artificial stateand what is more, to do so without the willing approbation and consent of the nation.

- (John) Enoch Powell
  Speech against Britain's entry into the Common Market, Shipley, 25 Feb.

ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.

-Thomas Rainborowe
  Said to Cromwell during theArmy Debates, Putney, 29 Oct.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he isgreater than they.

-John Ruskin
  TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.

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

-Jean-Paul Sartre
  Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne  s de la terre (The Wretched of theEarth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.