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Quotes About Consent

Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.
~ Unknown
Hay?r demeyi istemek çoktan evet demek anlam?na geliyor.
~ Paul Auster
I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. I guess that's why I'm so quiet and such a good whisperer
~ Paul Beatty
Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear.
~ Paul Beatty
only as much power over us as we willingly give him or her.
~ Unknown
February 17, 1950: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it – by conquest or consent.
~ Unknown
The right to say 'no' strengthens emotional boundaries. So does the freedom to say 'yes,' respect for feelings, acceptance of differences, and permission for expression.
~ Unknown
Every day, we teach people how to treat us by showing them what we will and won't accept, what we refuse to confront, and what we let slide. We may believe that we can make another person's troublesome behavior disappear if we don't make a fuss. But the message we send is, "It worked. Do it again.
~ Unknown
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
~ Paul Tsongas
As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
~ Pauline Réage
Whatever he wanted of her she wanted too, solely because he was asking it of her.
~ Pauline Réage
But he spoke. Holding her by the collar, with two fingers slipped in between the neck and collar, he told her it was his intention that henceforth she should be shared by him and those of his choosing, and by those whom he did not know who were connected to the society of the château, shared as she had been the previous evening.
~ Pauline Réage
O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.
~ Pauline Réage
Don't touch me without my permission. Mr. Little Boy
~ Unknown
preregister, which involves obtaining, reading, and signing pre-admission forms and a medical consent form. By registering in advance, you save time and avoid confusion when you arrive with the pregnant person in labor.
~ Unknown
Children should never be forced to do more than they are willing and able to do.
~ Peter A. Levine
So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
~ Genesis 24:57
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
~ Genesis 34:2
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
~ Genesis 34:8
We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
~ Genesis 34:15
Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”
~ Genesis 34:23
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
~ Genesis 42:20
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
~ Exodus 22:17
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
~ Deuteronomy 22:25