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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. -- Jonathan Lethem
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. -- Erich Fromm
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. -- James McGreevey
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. -- William Gibson
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' -- Douglas Coupland
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. -- Barney Frank
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. -- Vincent Bugliosi
Chivalry should be consensual. -- Emma Watson
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination. -- William Gibson
government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. -- Camille Paglia
Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what. -- Laura Antoniou
As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister. -- Peter McWilliams
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. -- Anthony Kennedy
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. -- Catharine MacKinnon
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. -- John Anderson
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality. -- Barbara Ess
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today. -- Bill Moyers
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions. -- Sheldon Richman
If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. -- Tucker Max
A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes. -- Peggy Orenstein
People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain. -- Rob Delaney
Finally, promoting conjugal marriage need not and should not involve prohibiting any consensual relationship. For all these reasons, libertarians should favor the regulation of marriage-which is, again, practically inevitable anyway. -- Sherif Girgis
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie. -- Pat Buchanan
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society. -- Roderick T. Long
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility -- Camille Paglia
Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization. -- Peter McWilliams

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