#consent

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. ↗

— Pierre Laval

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board? ↗

— William Kidd

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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

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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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