The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. — David Korten Copy Share Image
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract,… — Mette Frederiksen Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken,… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“The federation isn’t callous. It recognizes the gravity of wiping out entire civilizations, entire species. It does so only when it has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken - the idea that if you work hard and play by… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims,… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution… — David E. Wilkins Copy Share Image
In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Why did they have kids then? Why did they have children if they didn’t want to love and nurture them? Weren’t you… — Shweta Ganesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“In those days I did a lot of avoiding that I don’t do now — avoiding confrontations, avoiding difficult encounters. And I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“What about me?’ said Grantaire. ‘I’m here.’ ‘You?’ ‘Yes, me.’ ‘You? Rally Republicans! You? In defence of principles, fire up hearts that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The nation-state at best is based on the social contract that is also an emotional contract, stamped by the charisma of the… — Brian Alexander Copy Share Image
Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees. — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“Monomoy sent what was left of Lancaster’s once-grand, 110-year-old employer into bankruptcy court while it made off with millions and the employees… — Brian Alexander Copy Share Image
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
