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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
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. -- Shelley Berkley
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. -- George Santayana
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. -- Gore Vidal
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. -- Rocco Buttiglione
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide
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
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
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. -- Parker Palmer
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
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. -- Alice Dreger
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. -- Harvey Fierstein
I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier. -- Will Self
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow. -- Sri Aurobindo
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults -- Gore Vidal
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. -- Emo Philips
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. -- Francis Crick
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word. -- Fran Drescher
Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on. -- Sarah Ruhl
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
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
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
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
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
Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. -- Arthur C. Clarke
In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting. -- Edouard Boubat

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