“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
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image