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Quotes About Consent

You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.
~ Radhika Apte
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
~ Jean Rostand
I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.
~ Alice Dreger
Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.
~ Cheryl Yeoh
I deplore sexual harassment.
~ Lawrence Wright
It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.
~ Mia Kirshner
With Chikens, we have a Super Fare Deel, which is: they make the egs, we take the egs, they make more egs. And sometimes may even eat a live Chiken, shud that Chiken consent to be eaten by us, threw faling to run away upon are approche, after she has been looking for feed in a stump.
~ George Saunders
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
~ Georgette Heyer
Let me tell you, Mr Grantham, that there would have been more hope of winning my consent to your suit if you had come here to quarrel with me!' said Ravenscar cuttingly. 'When my sister marries it will be to someone with more spirit in him! Why, you comtemtible little worm, if you had a spark of pride or courage you would be calling me out, not offering to set me free! Your sister is worth a dozen of you! And she's a Jade!
~ Georgette Heyer
There is little likelihood of gaining my consent to your marriage with anyone whom I can at the moment call to mind.' 'Except,' said Miss Taverner through her teeth, 'yourself!' 'Except, of course, myself,' he agreed suavely. 'And do you suppose, Lord Worth, that there is any great likelihood of my marrying you?' inquired Judith in a sleek, deceptive voice. He raised his brows. 'Until I ask you to marry me, Miss Taverner, not the least likelihood,' he replied gently.
~ Georgette Heyer
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
~ Matt Blunt
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I'm tired of people not taking sexual harassment as a serious issue. It is.
~ Eva Gutowski
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
~ Algernon Sidney
Just because I have signed a contract doesn't mean that he or she has bought me from head to toe.
~ Shilpa Shinde
I want to make love to you. Will you let me?
~ Sarah Monette
I can say no at any time " "Yes." "But aren't I supposed to do whatever you say " "Only if you want to. That's what makes the power exchange of D s so potent. It's a free exchange one that is meant to give us both what we need.
~ Sasha White
What is government but theft by consent?
~ Scott Lynch
What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.
~ Scott Lynch
I'm always in control,' she said with the hint of a smile. 'Even when I'm not.' 'What do you mean?' Eric asked. 'The submissive has all the power,' Almira said. 'It's all about consent. I'm only talking to you right now because I want to; ergo, I'm the one in control, even though you're asking the questions. And right now, you're not even thinking about how to profile me. My eyes are up here.
~ Sean Campbell
Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.
~ Alyson Noel
Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.
~ Brad Williams
Está bien? Asiente con la cabeza y miente. —Sí.
~ Markus Zusak
The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.
~ Arundhati Roy