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Quotes About Consent

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
~ Amy Poehler
I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."18
~ Jill Lepore
No woman can be gotten with child without some knowledg, consent and delight in the acting thereof." Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May, 1653, to the Union (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1858), 123;
~ Jill Lepore
UK's Protection of Freedoms Act of 2012 guaranteeing parents that their permission would be asked before biometric data was taken from a child, it was estimated that roughly a third of Britain's schoolchildren have been duped into
~ Jim Marrs
you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.
~ Joanna Russ
I only want to hold you if you want me to hold you.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
You promise to stop if I say so?" she asked doubtfully, even while she lay down. "I promise. Though never trust anything a man tells you when he's got his head between your legs.
~ Anna Campbell
It's that nobody has ever been able to convince me that anything sexual between consenting individuals is wrong. I mean it's like part of my brain is missing. Nothing disgusts me. It all seems innocent, to do with profound sensations, and when people tell me they are offended by things, I just don't know what they mean.
~ Anne Rampling
In science, even more than elsewhere, to suppress a truth is to consent to a lie.
~ Anne Sayre
Once a guy has taken out his dick, you think he is going to do it every time.
~ Annie Ernaux
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
~ John Jay
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.
~ Lysander Spooner
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
~ Arthur C. Nielsen
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
~ Jay Roach
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.
~ Lysander Spooner
Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.
~ Evelyn Waugh
never do anything like this without telling me
~ Fern Michaels
Se te queres despedir Não te despidas de mim, Que eu não posso consentir Que tu me trates assim.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You can't force fighters to fight.
~ Dana White
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
~ Lysander Spooner
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
~ Derek Jarman
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
~ Eliza Dushku
A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.
~ Francis Collins