Quotes About Consent

It was flesh inside your flesh, it was giving somebody a pass to your body and hoping they respected you enough to not hurt you.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!

If I had a son, I want him to be able to grow up in a world where he would not be called a sexual predator for trying to kiss someone.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

I don't pressure anyone to do anything for me.

People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

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

To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.

Those who don't know how to get people to say yes soon fall away; those who do, stay and flourish.

As Samuel Butler wrote more than 300 years ago, "He who agrees against his will / Is of the same opinion still.