A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.
Silence gives consent.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Silence always gives consent.
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is
silent dissents.
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.
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