Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi 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
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
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing… — Simon Mainwaring 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
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
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
“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The original pact is a sexual as well as a social contract: it is sexual in the sense of patriarchal – that… — Carole Pateman 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
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
I come before you to call for unity from all Argentina, to build a new social contract of brotherhood and solidarity. I… — Alberto Fernandez 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
“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
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt 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
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
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 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
“The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: ‘you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you’. Many… — Tony Judt 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
