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
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
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
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
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 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
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“One of the most powerful ways that our shame triggers get reinforced is when we enter into a social contract based on… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“There is a social contract between the readers/buyers of romance novels and the novelists who write them. It's this: the girl ends… — Allison Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals.… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome joblessness is to create a social contract between the public and private sectors to provide decent jobs… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau speculated that states are formed by a social contract, a rational decision reached when people calculated their… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells 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
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
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a… — Simon Mainwaring 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
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Geuze compared sea-level rise to other transformative catastrophes, such as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a partly man-made natural disaster that… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. — David Korten Copy Share Image
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the… — Bryant H. McGill 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