It should be remembered that the foundation of the social…

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. And once…

— Will Hutton

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We…

— John Shelby Spong

The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense…

— Larry Craig

At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give…

— Jaron Lanier

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

— Henry Giroux

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as…

— Anonymous

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 intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr