We're all in a social contract. Whether we like it or not, we live in each others' good graces. — John Popper Copy Share Image
“Low employee engagement is a symptom of a suboptimal workplace culture” — Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Copy Share Image
What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. — David Milch Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Instead, he was mapping a social contract based on “unremitting coercive bargaining” in which individuals treated one another as instruments toward their… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I come before you to call for unity from all Argentina, to build a new social contract of brotherhood and solidarity. I… — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
“You can’t let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it’s perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people’s throats. Somewhere along… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The original pact is a sexual as well as a social contract: it is sexual in the sense of patriarchal – that… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
“The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: ‘you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you’. Many… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe that everyone would throw down their arms and embrace one another, drop the trappings of war and coercion… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
“Some mills rose up behind those buildings, their windows broken or nonexistent, the brick edifices festooned with graffiti, the land reclaiming the… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Complex operations, in which agencies assume complementary roles and operate in close proximity-often with similar missions but conflicting mandates-accentuate these tensions. The… — Michael Miklaucic Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“Women are not party to the original contract through which men transform their natural freedom into the security of civil freedom. Women… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“we know that America is a culture driven by fear. And when you explore the roots of that fear you find that… — Richard Beck Copy Share Image
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Another dangerous neoliberal word circulating everywhere that is worth zooming in on is the word ‘resilience’. On the surface, I think many… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
![“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never saw nor signed, seem anyway to have reneged on their side of the bargain which was to protect our lives and liberties. The new institutionally…” quote by Mick Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b18/mick-smith-106663_communication_they-anarchists-and-radical-environmenta_862715.jpg)
