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Quotes About Consent

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.
~ Roxane Gay
He is the King with your consent, stop blaming and start making better choices.
~ Haritha Velpureddy
You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself.
~ Compton Gage
How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?
~ Rush Limbaugh
Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated
~ Sarah Silverman
We're not interested in applications where you're spying on people.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
~ Patricia Ireland
The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.
~ George T. Conway III
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?
~ Jeremy Irons
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
~ Horace
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
~ Saint Augustine
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
~ John Ruskin
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
~ John Bunyan
Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.
~ Ezra Klein
If no meant no then every man would die a virgin.
~ Daniel Tosh
Fate does not seek our consent.
~ Terry Goodkind
No man can be trapped without his consent.
~ Théun Mares
In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
~ Theodore H. White
Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.
~ Gautam Rode
As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.
~ Keir Starmer
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
~ Gordon Smith
2005 study of British chiropractors found that 77 per cent did not seek informed consent.
~ Nick Cohen