Quotes Tagged "consent"

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare if you would dare to think you can love more than one lover.

It is what it is because you allowed it to be so.

We cannot sanitize every comment, every come-on, every gesture in our efforts to stamp out harassment and assault. We cannot sanitize all of our spaces, we cannot make them irrefutably safe from words and acts and behaviors. We are humans, and our emotions and desires make us into complicated creatures. Sometimes we are nervous and awkward. We misjudge and we make mistakes and we dream of things that will not happen, of people we want to be with who will not want to be with us. We muster our courage and go for someone who seems unattainable to see if, by some miracle, it turns out they like us back, and this is not a crime. But we can certainly do a better job of teaching people how to understand romantic feelings, how to read signals, how to back off when someone says no, how not to keep pursuing someone when they have rejected us, about what is appropriate and what is inappropriate in certain contexts, in professional and educational circumstances. We must become better thinkers—critical thinkers—about this aspect of our lives, better communicators on every level with respect to consent and non-consent. We may not want consent to be present-at-hand forever, but we should not want consent to go back to being invisible, so invisible that we don’t notice its function, that we don’t care or refuse to care or even see when it has been ignored, disregarded, when this disregard has caused someone else to suffer, to become traumatized, when it has changed her life forever.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.