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Quotes About Consent

Clary sat back. "You don't just get to say no." "This plan involves me! I get to say no! No." "Simon -" Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. "Let me introduce you to my good friend No.
~ Cassandra Clare
Don't be a sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.
~ Cassandra Clare
You can't kiss a girl into anything.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
If a man punches you in the eye, you are not expected to have pleaded with him not to for the crime to be accepted as assault. If you are sitting at your cash register and someone demands the cash in it, you will not be accused of consent if you simply hand it over. Only in the prosecution of rape is evidence of resistance an issue.
~ Germaine Greer
Probably the commonest form of non-criminal rape is rape by fraud - by phoney tenderness or false promises of an enduring relationship, for example.
~ Germaine Greer
Right!" said Joe. "My middle name is Joseph, anyway.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
he took her to wife, she would still study to please him, nor take umbrage at aught that he should do or say, and if she would be obedient, and many other like things, to all of which she answered ay;
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.
~ Gitta Sereny
Except for a monster, no man who actually participated in such events (rather than "merely" organized from far away) can concede guilt and yet, as the young prison officer in Düsseldorf put it, "consent to remain alive".
~ Gitta Sereny
late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.
~ Glenn Beck
Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.
~ Glenn Greenwald
They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.
~ Gloria Steinem
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
When you say yes to something you don't want to do, here is the result: you hate what you are doing, you resent the person who asked you, and you hurt yourself.
~ James Altucher
To 'come along' meant that he would change his ways and consent to be the husband she had traveled so far to find. It was he who, unforgivably, taught her that there are people in the world for whom 'coming along' is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
~ James Baldwin
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
~ Rebecca Skloot
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
~ Anita Hill
No one has the right to make where you go or what you do uncomfortable.
~ Normani Kordei
I would never do something I'm uncomfortable with.
~ Yvonne Orji
I would never ask somebody to do something where I felt that it's not right or it puts someone in an uncomfortable position.
~ Juergen Teller
Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.
~ Elisabeth Moss
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
~ Tom G. Palmer
Performing unconsented surgeries is considered battery because the patient can't voice their opinion - they're unconscious.
~ Paul Nassif
I am not comfortable kissing or exposing, and I believe in laying open my cards well in advance so that no one is inconvenienced. Till date, I have been very specific about certain things, and my directors have always understood my concerns and played along. I don't think this should pose a problem in the future as well.
~ Sonakshi Sinha