Quotes About Age Of Consent

#1. I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

John Entwistle

#2. Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting

#3. Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

Cate Blanchett

#4. The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

John Oliver

#5. I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

Shelley Winters

#6. The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

Judith Lewis Herman

#7. You're 60
But honestly it doesn't show
Mind you, you reached the age of consent
About 50,000 consents ago!

John Walter Bratton

#8. The age of consent for sex should be 12 years old.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#9. She's fifteen, above the age of consent, and he's seventeen, but he's still "the boy" in every conversation. She's "the young woman".

Words are not small things.

Fredrik Backman

#10. Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.

Radhanath Swami

#11. Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.

C.S. Forester

#12. Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Miguel De Cervantes

#13. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

#14. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#15. Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.

Pope Francis

#16. Wake up for your call no matter how many times you fall; Stand tall and stretch yourself once more. Rise up from the ground, roll the ball and be hopeful you will score!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Pope Francis

#18. God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

Janet Bode

#20. By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Mark Twain

#21. Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Blaise Pascal

#22. The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Octavia Spencer

#23. What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!

Ray Bradbury

#24. INVISIBLE BOY
And here we see the invisible boy
In his lovely invisible house,
Feeding a piece of invisible cheese
To a little invisible mouse.
Oh, what a beautiful picture to see!
Will you draw an invisible picture for me?

Shel Silverstein

#25. Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you hard.

George R R Martin

#26. I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

Peter Dinklage

#27. Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Donald Rumsfeld