Quotes About Consent

setting boundaries is making clear what's okay and what's not okay, and why.

The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavour to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.

If you say 'yes' to good things, you will get good things.

A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

I've worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they'll go, 'Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don't feel comfortable.' Well if you don't feel comfortable, don't do it.

Love can never be required or forced

How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn't occasionally say yes?

It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.

Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it!

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

A government that loses, or forfeits, the consent of the governed is doomed. Invariably. Inevitably. Irreversibly

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

free State" is not some elusive "collective" that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Webster defined "free" in part as follows: "In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.

He then went on to explain that he loved me and would never do anything to hurt me, but if I gave him permission to have sex with other women and not form relationships with them, he would.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

La única forma de almacenar información es por acuerdo.