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Quotes About Consent

Come on, Ms. Baird. I promised early on that I wouldn't bite." A slow smile. "Unless you make the request, of course.
~ Nalini Singh
Why coerce when you can contract ?
~ Nalini Singh
Random sex isn't my style." "Who said anything about random?" Another teasing brush, another rush of exquisite pleasure. "I plan to have sex with you on a regular basis.
~ Nalini Singh
by any means without the prior written consent
~ Unknown
Violence, in all its forms, is integral to the everyday functioning of capitalist society—for it is only through a mix of brute coercion and constructed consent that the system can sustain itself in the best of times. One form of violence cannot be stopped without stopping the others.
~ Unknown
The main thrust of Burr's argument was that citizenship came from consent. Drawing on his favorite writer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burr defended the basic premise of the social contract: citizens were not born, but made, through their participation in civil society. Gallatin
~ Unknown
One had done the thing to a boy because he asked her to: this story holds much interest for the girls. Could it be that boys like it? Is it possible they want it? Some of them have found internet forums that suggest that this is the case.
~ Naomi Alderman
You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.
~ Naomi Wallace
Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn't based on consensus. It's based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred by the consent of those he leads. The Marines allowed me to be their commander, and they could revoke their permission at any time.
~ Unknown
The left often refers nonjudgmentally to "sex workers" and tends to be tolerant of transactions among consenting adults. The right, joined by some feminists, refers to "prostitutes" or "prostituted women" and argues that prostitution is inherently demeaning and offensive. The result of this bickering is a lack of cooperation in combatting what everybody believes is abhorrent: forced prostitution and child prostitution.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Dancing and riding, it's the same damn thing. It's about trust and consent.
~ Nicholas Evans
All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Today's liberal democracy, with its culture of transgression, its drive to liberate anything and everything done by and between consenting adults, and its mania for management by metrics, appears bent on adding to history's examples of societies that failed to manage vice and the crooked timber of our humanity.
~ Os Guinness
Democracy has become a weapon of moneyed interests. It uses the media to create the illusion that there is consent from the governed. The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. The notion of democracy is often no different than living under a plutocracy or a government by wealthy elites.
~ Oswald Spengler
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~ Otto von Bismarck
When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~ Otto von Bismarck
My favorite word? "Yes."
~ Pamela Anderson
Yes. That's exactly right.
~ Unknown
I promise I won't spank you," he told me, his voice rough and low as he added, "not unless you ask me to." I let him feel my laugh against his shoulder. "That's because you aren't genuinely suicidal.
~ Patricia Briggs
You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it." — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)
~ Patricia Briggs
A few of you are here by choice. Or at least by Switzerland.
~ Patrick Ness
Does anyone object to me leaving?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There are names for people who take advantage of women who are not in full control of themselves, and none of those names will ever rightfully be applied to me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There are names for people who take advantage of woman who are not in full control of themselves".
~ Patrick Rothfuss