The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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 do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only… — Hedrick Smith 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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