18th century Quote by 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…

— Simon Mainwaring

“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between…

— Niall Ferguson

“The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau speculated that states are formed by a social contract, a rational decision reached when people calculated their self-interest, came…

— Jared Diamond

“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or…

— Pankaj Mishra

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be…

— Karl R. Popper

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have…

— B. R. Ambedkar

“Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy,…

— Sharon L. Reddy

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the…

— Noam Chomsky

“I have called it a Great Splintering, not purely an economic phenomenon, but a social one: an era where social contracts are being torn…

— Umair Haque

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But…

— Milton Friedman

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

— Colin Wilson