#consent

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

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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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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

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