The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with…

“I have called it a Great Splintering, not purely an economic phenomenon, but a social one: an era where social contracts are being torn…

— Umair Haque

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

— Langdon Winner

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet,…

— Howard Rheingold

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

— Campbell McGrath

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

— George Orwell

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

— Cornel West

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

— Mark Nepo

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It…

— Jodi Picoult

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

— Anne Waldman

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

— Richard Basehart

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

— Bernard Malamud

Fat girls aren’t real people.

— Tucker Max

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of…

— Svetlana Alexievich