Social Contract Quotes

Social Contract Quote of the day

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 peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

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 if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

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 they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

A born king is a very rare being.

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

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

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.