“I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”

— Bobby Knight

Knight's reply to interviewer Connie Chung's question. "There are times Bobby Knight can't do it his way—and what does he do then?" From an NBC television interview by Connie Chung on April 25, 1988 as reported in the May 09, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067309/index.htm

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Clayton Williams (1931–2020) American businessman

March 26, 1990, at his ranch ([Texas Candidate's Comment About Rape Causes a Furor, The New York Times, Associated Press, March 26, 1990, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/26/us/texas-candidate-s-comment-about-rape-causes-a-furor.html]; [March 25, 1990, Williams' apologizes for comparing bad weather to rape, United Press International, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/25/Williams-apologizes-for-comparing-bad-weather-to-rape/2869638341200/]; [The New Republic, Five Other Politicians Who’ve Said Idiotic Things About Rape, Molly, Redden, August 19, 2012, https://newrepublic.com/article/106317/five-other-politicians-whove-said-idiotic-things-about-rape]; [Snopes, Did Republicans Actually Say These Things About Rape?, David, Mikkelson, February 27, 2014, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/personal-foul/])

“I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape.”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

In defense of Roman Polansky, as quoted in "Roman Polanski: backlash as Whoopi Goldberg says director didn't commit 'rape-rape'" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/roman-polanski/6245219/Roman-Polanski-backlash-as-Whoopi-Goldberg-says-director-didnt-commit-rape-rape.html, The Telegraph, Nick Allen, 30 Sep, 2009.

“If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.”

Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”

Brian W. Aldiss book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)

“You shouldn't abstain from rape just 'cause you think that I want you to/ You shouldn't rape cause rape is a fucked up thing to do”

Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor

"From the Perspective of God".
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“Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.”

Aung San Suu Kyi book Letters from Burma

Source: Letters from Burma

“Work. Don't Think. Relax.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Variant: Write. Don't think. Relax.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“But people in Croatia are more relaxed, they work less, they have less money, but they enjoy life more because they are not so busy.”

Goran Višnjić (1972) Croatian actor

Radio Times April 2007

“Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/494012589828218881 (), quoted in Lizzie Dearden, " Richard Dawkins tweets: 'Date rape is bad, stranger rape is worse' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-says-date-rape-is-bad-stranger-rape-is-worse-on-twitter-9634572.html", The Independent ()
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“In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberté de la presse, il faut savoir se soumettre aux maux inévitables qu'elle fait naître.
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XI.

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