29 Quotes About Consent

Consent is one of the most important conversations you will have. It’s the first thing you should discuss before having sex, or anything else for that matter. So if you want to have a healthy, positive relationship with your partner, you need to make sure they are on board with what you’re doing. You can read these quotes about consent and their effects on relationships to find out if they are consenting to anything.

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They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover. David Rovics
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
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We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way. Richard Paul Evans
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow...
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Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. Frank Herbert
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The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent consent is to make use of all the violence permitted in love. To read it in the eyes, to see it in the ways in spite of the mouth's denial, that is the art of he who knows how to love. If he then completes his happiness, he is not brutal, he is decent. He does not insult chasteness; he respects it; he serves it. JeanJacques Rousseau
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And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love. N.R. Walker
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You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it. Thomm Quackenbush
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There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology. Amy Hatvany
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The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now. Amy Hatvany
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I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead Amy Hatvany
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I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong. Amy Hatvany
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Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else! Michael Bassey Johnson
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Arminius, appealing to Lactantius, held that: 'To recommend faith to others, we must make it the subject of persuasion, and not of compulsion'. He insisted that the true religion from Christ does not deteriorate into dissention. In the exercise of Christian liberty there will be sincere and honest differences. These differences cannot and should not be stamped out by means of coercion. In confronting the Scripture, Christians should be able to agree on what is necessary for salvation. But when mutual consent and agreement cannot be obtained on some articles, 'then the right hand of fellowship should be extended by both parties'. Each party should 'acknowledge the other for partakers of the same faith and fellow-heirs of the same salvation, although they may hold different sentiments concerning the nature of faith and the manner of salvation'. . Gerald O. McCulloh
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Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will. Billy Graham
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent Thomas Hobbes
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Your consent is your character. Shannon L. Alder
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This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship–replete with ever more rights and responsibilities–would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122) . Victor Davis Hanson
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Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy. Michael Bassey Johnson
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What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice. Rachel Moran
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To react is one's choice. Toba Beta
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I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I 'came out, ' I mean that I resolved to never lie about my love for women, never deliberately pass for straight, and never deny a lover by calling her 'him.' To do so, I felt, would be to betray not only the women I desired, but my deepest self. My decision to quit meat was equally simple. Somehow, through the confluence of midseventies influences, I knew that vegetarianism was a particularly healthy way to eat. One day, quite suddenly, I realized: If I didn't need to eat meat to stay alive, then eating meat was killing for pleasure. I couldn't live with myself, wouldn't be the nonviolent person I believed myself to be, if I killed other beings--beings who had their own desires--merely to satisfy my desire for the taste of their flesh. Looking back, I see that both decisions, coming out and quitting meat, are about the interplay of desire and integrity. Sometimes integrity means being true to your desires, and sometimes integrity requires you to refuse your desires. I also notice that both decisions were about bodies and consent. A primary tenet of gay liberation is that what consenting people do with each other's bodies is nobody else's business. And, of course, eating meat is something you do to somebody else's body without their consent. Pattrice Jones
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I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all. Robert Shea
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If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent! Thomm Quackenbush
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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. Albert Einstein
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Adrian Cronauer
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. George Washington