Zitat des Tages über Zustimmung / Consenting:
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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 exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.