Social contract Quote by Brian Alexander

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

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

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

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

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

“The nation-state at best is based on the social contract that is also an emotional contract, stamped by the charisma of the past.” —SVETLANA…

— Brian Alexander

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 right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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

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

— Henry Giroux

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