Ancient Quote by Catherine Wilson

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…

— Edmund Burke

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is…

— Lysander Spooner

“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the…

— Karl Polanyi

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

“Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization…

— Leon Trotsky

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It therefore is necessary to consider the possibility that administrative law was an instrument of a class that took a dim view of popularly…

— Philip Hamburger

The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their…

— Han Fei

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements…

— John Rawls