Quotes About Consent

the exchange of love is illegitimate if one or the other's consent does not proceed from the central point of the soul where the 'yes' can only be eternal. The obligation of marriage, which is now so often regarded as a simple social convention, is written into the very nature of human thought by the affinity between carnal love and beauty. Everything that has some relationship to beauty should be exempted (unaffected) by the passage of time. Beauty is eternity here below.

A forced marriage is no marriage.

Your peace won't begin after you heal, but when you agree to heal.

We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.

KLYTEMNESTRA Go ahead. Permission granted. If you always spoke in a tone this calm, it wouldn't be so painful.

He may also have thought it unjust to dissolve a marriage entered into by consenting adults, with his permission: while he often behaved deviously, he possessed an innate sense of justice and told his brother he would not allow him to break the laws of God and man.

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of "Mein Kampf" inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go agree, agree, agree - what? - agree, agree.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

As Dr. Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1944, discovered about the German people in Nazi Germany "There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn't the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors."529

As survivors, we've been conditioned to be victims sexually. Many of us have never learned to say no or to set limits on our sexual activities...To heal, it's important that we take control, that we make active choices concerning if, when, and how we want to explore sexuality. Especially in the beginning, you need to put your own needs about sex ahead of anyone else's.

It's easier to acquiesce. Everyone does, they tell him.

God does not control our minds without our consent; but if we desire to know and to do His will, His promises are ours: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." "If

It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex--they should draw the line at goats.

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.

The wise man consents to everything, for he identifies himself with nothing. An opportunist without desires.

Okay, Mattie. I said okay." All of a sudden, she threw her arms around me and squeezed. "We won't talk about it if you don't want to.

In the woe of the century no factor caused more trouble than the persistent lag between the growth of the state and the means of state financing. While centralized government was developing, taxation was still encased in the concept that taxes represented an emergency measure requiring consent.

were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus

The narrative of the Gospels may carry conviction to some minds, the testimony of the Church may take hold of and satisfy others, but if so, what is it that really convinces? It is the fact, or, if the expression be preferred, the idea of the Incarnation commending itself to the soul of man. That idea, looking upon the soul of man, bears its own guarantee with it, and thus, and thus only, through the head or through the heart, enchains consent.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.

I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with.