Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[The book, Anna Karenina, is] a mirror held up to the real, grimy, quotidian interactions of married life, of which romance is… — Kate Moses Copy Share Image
I mean, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, the Black Lives Movement, it's very difficult to, in a sense, especially since the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Inside his copy of The Social Contract he keeps a letter from a young Picard, an enthusiast called Antoine Saint-Just: “I know… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
“It’s time to step up and start making examples out of people. Decent citizens black and white should not have to live… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Disengagement is the issue underlying the majority of problems I see in families, schools, communities, and organizations and it takes many forms,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There's a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers'… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then,… — Dane Whalen Copy Share Image
“Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers -… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image