Quotes About Consent

That [expletive] is lying to you!" he warned my mother. "He's a nickel slick and a dollar short." But my mother was insistent. She wore her father down until, finally, he gave his consent.

An act against my will is not my act.

He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.

One of the problems with setting up any such research programme would undoubtedly be the problem of obtaining informed consent (an essential requirement before any new product can be tested).

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.

A woman should be able to walk the streets of Eastvale stark naked if she wants, and no one has the right to touch her.

Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.

If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire . . . the core of the misunderstanding lies in thinking of prayer as something that we do. Understood more correctly, prayer is what God does in us. Our part has much more to do with consent than initiative.

After all, show me a man who dislikes being raped slowly and enthusiastically by a hotblooded gorgeous Irish colleen, and I'll show you a man with a problem.

An Up-Front Contract is based on the legal concept of a contract. Any valid legal contract consists of four major components and several minor components. On paper, here's what it looks like: 1. Lawful object 2. Competency 3. Consideration 4. Mutual consent A. Understanding B. A proposal, verbal or written C. Acceptance

Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

a massive and intimidating publicity campaign launched after some successful Nazi fait accompli, followed by a (genuinely secret) ballot to confirm the Führer's actions. It was a logical extension of Hitler's method of dictatorship by consent.

If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren't really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your consent.

That would have been the worst kind of violation, to read you words uninvited.

Female choice about when, where, with whom, and under which conditions they consent to sex is the deepest and most fundamental component of women's sexual psychology. It is a fundamental human right. Although men have coevolved strategies to undermine it, that freedom of choice should never be compromised.

Strip to your underwear," she told me, and I said, "D'accord." As the woman turned to leave, she said something else, and, looking back, I really should have asked her to repeat it, to draw a picture if that's what it took, because once you take your pants off, d'accord isn't really OK anymore.

Most importantly, perhaps, they would invent a new politics which depended on participation and consent, rather than on the top-down autocracy of Rome.

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.