Consenting Adults Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom.

Michel Templet

#3. Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith. But he figured it must be high up the ladder of mortal sins, ones that required serious contrition and confession to a priest. Bondurant

John Heubusch

#4. 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.

Kevin Spacey

#5. The head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, made it perfectly clear: sophisticated investors don't, or at least shouldn't, rely on trust. Those who bought the products the banks sold were consenting adults who should have known better.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#6. 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 should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage.

George W. Bush

#7. 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 done in private by consenting adults.

Anna Quindlen

#8. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

Shelley Berkley

#9. The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Robert Nozick

#10. The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Robert Nozick

#11. 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

#12. Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Francis Crick

#13. Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.

Kabir Bedi

#14. 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.

Fran Lebowitz

#15. If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Coretta Scott King

#16. Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

Fran Drescher

#17. When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

Emily Yoffe

#18. Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

Emo Philips

#19. I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

#20. They slept that deep sleep reserved for babies and consenting adults who have worn their bodies out with hot sex.

Carolyn Brown

#21. From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

Ilana Mercer

#22. Kink is only sexy when done between consenting adults," Nora said. "So don't do any kink until you're at least eighteen. No, twenty-one. Thirty. Thirty's a good age to start. And do your homework. And stay in school. And don't do drugs. God, I'm a hypocrite. Someone find me my beer. Please.

Tiffany Reisz

#23. Living together aklone is hell between consenting adults.

Michel Houellebecq

#24. I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Rocco Buttiglione

#25. It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

#26. Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.

Joe Queenan

#27. Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? He could not even shake off the recollection that she had been there; that her arms had been round him, once - if never again.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#28. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel

John Green

#29. If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

Bruce Campbell

#30. If you don't remove your hands immediately, I will render you unable to biologically maintain life.

Kaede Kouchi

#31. When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

Maelle Gavet

#32. We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

Katha Pollitt

#33. everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

Michel Foucault