Quotes About Social Contracts

#1. 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 contracts, and the control of information.

Bryant H. McGill

#2. 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

#3. Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

Howard Rheingold

#4. Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

Ralph Raico

#5. Go forth, little book, to destroy fear, prejudice and superstition, and help to install Reason in the minds of the human race to be its guide in the affairs of life and its living.

Joseph Lewis

#6. The discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary,

Gloria Steinem

#7. Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

James Madison

#8. People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?

John Darnielle

#9. it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting level. He had an affinity with pain. If he couldn't cure it, he took it on.

Colum McCann

#12. As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Alain De Botton

#13. Reading is at the beginning of the social contract

Alberto Manguel