Quotes About Consent

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

If someone's making a decision on your behalf, make sure you trust them.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.

Wait, so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants, too?

Do you want me to answer that?

I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?" I swallowed. "Uh... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

Teasing is veiled hostility and is almost never funny, unless the teasee has openly agreed to relate that way.

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

I will take a picture with anyone who wants one. All they have to do is ask. If I don't want to take a picture, there is an easy way to solve that problem - I don't leave my house.

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

But if you do not wish to speak, I do not wish to hear.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The strategy of gaining entry is not unlike seduction: if you ask for permission, you've lost before you've begun.

One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and as a result began to feel that there wasn't really a point to anything, that free will was an illusion, and that the things most people invested time and energy in were systems of control designed by those who sought to manipulate the general populace

He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.