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Quotes About Consent

In accordance to entry two hundred and three, will you then submit to having a cast of your anal canal so the dildo employed to penetrate your anus can be made to perfect proportions?" The Reigh bodyguards froze. Nagrad read the entry. "I won't be requesting that one.
~ Ilona Andrews
An appeal to the consent of the common sense of mankind cannot be allowed, for that is a witness whose authority depends merely upon rumor. Says Horace: Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi.
~ Immanuel Kant
You talk of freedom — I've never had it! I've been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!
~ Iris Murdoch
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
~ Andreas Capellanus
I really don't like to tweet or Instagram anything about the people in my life just because I feel like I signed up for this, and I don't even know what this is yet. I do know that it could go anywhere, and I really don't want to sign other people in my life up for it without their permission or consent.
~ Bo Burnham
When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.
~ Rob Lowe
And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?
~ Jessica Valenti
I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.
~ Josh Radnor
Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.
~ Pedro Winter
What is it exactly that I'm allowed to do with you?" I asked. "Anything you want.
~ Susanna Moore
Here." Sam came over, stripped down to his boxers. "Hunch forward and put your head down." Robin looked at him. "My safe word is monkey.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Buttercup gives a flick of his tail that I take as agreement.
~ Suzanne Collins
Coin calls the audience to attention and tells them I have consented to be the Mockingjay, provided the other victors — Peeta, Johanna, Enobaria, and Annie — will be granted full pardon for any damage they do to the rebel cause.
~ Suzanne Collins
Sometimes you can't say no to someone.
~ Suzanne Kingsbury
When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
~ Adam Cohen
No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.
~ Moon Jae-in
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
She said yes. If only she didn't talk so much!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you
~ Ikechukwu Izuakor
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
~ David W. Earle
The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can't say no.
~ Charles Stross
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?" "Since
~ Charles Stross
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?
~ Charles Stross