Unconsenting Quotes

#1. I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't ... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Mark Twain

#2. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting ... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. Besides, all flame hazes fight alone.

Yashichiro Takahashi

#5. They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Reed

#6. I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so its right over my heart.
"Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?"
"Yes."
"Feel how steady it is?"
"It's fast.

Veronica Roth

#7. Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

Bruce Schneier

#8. Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce