Consensual Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.
— John Anderson
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,…
— David Boaz
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Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over…
— Roderick T. Long
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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify…
— Pat Buchanan
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves…
— Barney Frank
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Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in…
— Monica Lewinsky
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For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence…
— Derrick Jensen
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Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and…
— Robert Moss
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I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe…
— Heather McHugh
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I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
— James McGreevey
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My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and…
— Camille Paglia
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
— William Gibson
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The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.…
— Erich Fromm
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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
— Tom Robbins
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The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not…
— Libba Bray
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If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.
— Tucker Max
Who Wrote These Consensual Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Consensual Quotes as follows: