Quotes About Consent

He [Aziz Ansari] was just another overeager guy trying to talk a woman into sex, viewing her limits as a challenge he needed to overcome in order to score. What he did was not unusual and was not, in truth, newsworthy; yet that was the very reason it was news. Because it extended the conversation beyond legality, revealing the most banal and pervasive of power dynamics: that men interpret women's behavior through the filter of their own wishes.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.

Rape in any form is never okay, no matter who the rapist is.

Alcohol makes people do stupid things, but it doesn't turn a good guy into a rapist, and neither did you.

They both knew that the Massachusetts rape shield laws prevented defense attorneys from attacking a victim on the issue of consent. But they could attack her on other issues, like sexual history or reputation, which scared some victims off from reporting a rape.

she agreed. The professor said that she

government leaders made decisions that would have massive impact on millions of people, all without their knowledge or consent.

Because you're trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent." "I've

it must also be realized that a paradigm has the power to keep a whole community of scientists working on a more or less common area. In a sense, it could be taken as an unconscious or tacit form of consent. At first sight, the paradigm would be of obvious use to the scientific community. However, it also exacts a price in that the mind is kept within certain fixed channels that deepen with time until an individual scientist is no longer aware of his or her limited position.

The priest DID have it coming, though, Lelldorin declared hotly. What priest? The priest of Chaldan at that little chapel who wouldn't marry us because Arianna couldn't give him a document proving she had her family's consent. He was very insulting. Did you break anything? A few of his teeth is about all-- and I stopped hitting him as soon as he agreed to perform the ceremony.

I'll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As

I know," said Papa. "It's all right with me, but

appointment – or at least permitting him to. And she allowed him to paw her—

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law. And is

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted.

Rack?" "You know, R-A-C-K," Mason spelled out. "Risk-aware, consensual kink. It's a level beyond S-S-C." "Safe, sane and consensual," Mark replied, glad he at least knew that one, and feeling foolish that he hadn't heard of RACK before, though he understood and practiced the concept behind it. "Yep.

Your hands are not your own,'" Jaime quoted. "'Neither your breasts, nor, above all, is any orifice of your body, which we are at liberty to explore and into which we may, whenever we so please, introduce ourselves.'" "Precisely!

I believe a properly trained slave should always submit to her Master's wishes

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

in those days I construed absence of explicit opposition as a whole-hearted endorsement.