Consenting Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in… — Melissa Etheridge
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is… — Anna Quindlen
I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults… — George W. Bush
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land… — Lewis H. Lapham
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick
Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children. — Kristine G. Baker
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap… — Angela Elwell Hunt
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. — Rocco Buttiglione
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word. — Fran Drescher
The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we… — Helen M. Luke
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to… — Walter Lippmann
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. — Shelley Berkley
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that… — Harvey Fierstein
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. — Molly Ivins
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal… — Fran Lebowitz
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. — Gore Vidal
So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went… — John Berger

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