Quotes About Consent

Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs: that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Never say no to sex

A iubi înseamn? s?-i dau celuilalt, cu propriul meu consim??mânt, o putere infinit? asupra mea. Cum de putusem contribui la propria mea servitute?

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

If nobody's talking, then nobody can say no.

I found that by getting him to say 'yes, yes' from the outset, he forgot the issue at stake and was happy to do all the things I suggested.

Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.

PRINCIPLE 5—Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.

REGLA 5 Consiga que la otra persona diga "sí, sí" inmediatamente.

And then you'll do what I say? "Yes." "Take us where I'll tell you to?" "Yes." "No hidden overrides?" "None that I know of.

I had set the Evening wholly apart to consider seriously about it, and was all alone; for already People had, as it were by a general Consent, taken up the Custom of not going out of Doors after Sun-set, the Reasons I shall have Occasion to say more of by-and-by.

"The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man."

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

The conversation thus established was a poor thing, Tol knew, so far as his own participation in it went, but it was something to go on. It gave him hope. And now I want to tell youhow this courtship, conducted for so long in secret in Tol's mind alone, became public. This is the story of Miss Minnie's first consent, the beginning of their story together, which is one of the dear possessions of the history of Port William.

Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?

Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.

The great majority of men are natural dunces and sluggards; in any system whatever these men will sink to the bottom; and to help them with state subsidies is "like pouring water into a leaking cask." Such people must be ruled in politics and directed in industry; with their consent if possible, without it if necessary.

DON'T RAPE WOMEN. YOU MAY GET AIDS.

Mine was a single, highly individual case and the doctors had proceeded along the lines they felt would be most beneficial to me alone, with my full knowledge, approval, and consent. Beyond that, I had no advice for anyone...help for others could only come from the acceptance and enlightenment of the public and the medical profession.