#consent

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Earlier in this book I noted that one of my favorite sayings is “You get what you tolerate.” This applies in spades to your relationships. Failing to speak up about something carries the implication that you are OK with it—that you are prepared to continue tolerating it. As a companion saying goes, “Silence means consent.” If you tolerate snide or offensive remarks from your boss or colleague, the remarks will continue. If you tolerate your spouse’s lack of consideration for your feelings, it will continue. If you tolerate the disregard of people who regularly turn up late for meetings or social engagements, they will continue to keep you cooling your heels. If you tolerate your child’s lack of respect, you will continue to get no respect. Each time you tolerate a behavior, you are subtly teaching that person that it is OK to treat you that way. ↗

— Margie Warrell

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

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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. ↗

— Albert Camus

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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗

— Andre Gide

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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ↗

— Edward S. Herman

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One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

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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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