Social Contract Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries. — Jose Angel Gurria
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the… — Cal Thomas
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked… — Robert Higgs
But once you publish a book, doesnâ€™t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldnâ€™t we just write books and print them… — Jonathan Evison
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social… — William Hurrell Mallock
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they… — Tammy Bruce
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
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
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged… — Ellen Goodman
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a… — Charles Peguy
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste… — Bob Riley
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting;… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. — David Korten
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously… — Simon Mainwaring
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of… — Simon Mainwaring
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between… — Simon Mainwaring
In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers… — Simon Mainwaring
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social… — Bryant H. McGill

Who Wrote These Social Contract Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 27 Social Contract Quotes as follows: