Quotes About Consent

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

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

Consensual nonconsent is not uncommon in sexual relationships: pretending to resist and protest while prior consent has been given. Plenty of normal, loving couples play this way.

Just so long as you're cool with outercourse, I guess I don't mind." I grinned. "What the heck is outercourse?

In another all-too-common example, the populist Vox party in Spain had its Twitter access temporarily suspended when, in January 2020, a politician in the Socialist Party accused the Vox party of "hate speech," for opposing the Socialist-led government's plan to force schoolchildren to study gender ideology, even if parents did not consent.

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom.

Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the the culture defines it.

A man wants what a woman has - sex. He can steal it, persuade her to give it away, rent it, , lease it over the long term, or own it outright.

Responsibility is something you actively agree to.

Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.

As my guarantee, He won it for me by His consent to have His petition unanswered.

However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.

You believe that your religious concerns about sex, in all their tiresome immensity, have something to do with morality. And yet, your efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults—and even to discourage your own sons and daughters from having premarital sex—are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

Like it or not, people say no more than they say "yes.

Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.