“Your silence gives consent.”
435b
Cratylus
Variant: I shall assume that your silence gives consent
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Plato 80
Classical Greek philosopher -427–-347 BCRelated quotes
“4165. Silence gives Consent.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
Paul Beatty
book
The Sellout
Source: The Sellout
“God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.”
José Saramago
(1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.
Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.
“Parties cannot by consent give to the Court a power which it would not have without it.”
William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
(1815–1899) British lawyer, judge and politician
In re Ayhner; Ex parte Bischofishiem (1887), L. J. 57 Q. B. 168.
“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”
Source: The Swan Thieves
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Disputed
Variant: No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Source: Sometimes claimed to appear in her book This is My Story, but in The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes (2006), Keyes writes on p. 97 that "Bartlett's and other sources say her famous quotation can be found in This is My Story, Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography. It can't. Quotographer Rosalie Maggio scoured that book and many others by and about Roosevelt in search of this line, without success. In their own extensive searching, archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, have not been able to find the quotation in This Is My Story or any other writing by the First Lady. A discussion of some of the earliest known attributions of this quote to Roosevelt, which may be a paraphrase from an interview, can be found in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/30/not-inferior/.
“No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Red Symons
(1949) Australian broadcaster and musician
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