Quotes About Consent

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents.Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

they should consent to be pleased in spite of that most dreadful enemy to our pleasures, our own pre-established codes of decision.

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no."

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

To enjoy objects of our affection by force appears to be more like the act of a robber than that of a lover.

Silence is a form of consent, and I just couldn't let the evil popular picture of David and our community stand without trying to combat it.

be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and promise as little as possible in return.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.

The dividing line between SM sex and "vanilla" sex can sometimes be arbitrary.

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

This was the flaw in making a bargain with yourself. There is no one else there to agree to the terms.

social acceptability of digitization depends on us believing that our data will not be used against us,

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Hacen falta dos para bailar, y hacen falta dos para convertir a una mujer en objeto sexual.

The chapter ends by showing that nuclear war more closely approximates the model of torture than the model of conventional war because it is a structural impossibility that the populations whose bodies are used in the confirmation process can have exercised any consent over this use of their bodies.

All hands agreed, and the wire was sent. The reply was a one-word telegram: "Proceed.

conveying the message that sexual touching requires consent, you're obviously conveying values and judgments. And

It sucks that he did that to you." "I was consenting." Cleo didn't know why she kept excusing the situation with that. Consenting and unethical were two different things.

I don't know what to say." "Say yes, Mistress McLeod." Ada shook her head. "I can't allow you to come calling, Mr. Bevins." "I see." He shook his head. "No, I don't see. I thought, that is . . . Why not?

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.