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“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.”

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Book:A Fighting Chance

Source: A Fighting Chance

“It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A born king is a very rare being.”

Born Kings Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?”

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Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.”

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Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”

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Book:On the Social Contract

Source: On the Social Contract

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.”

Men May Doe Matter States Lost Given Dignity Affair Given Up Does It Matter Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.”

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Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

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Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.”

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Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.”

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Author:Jose Angel Gurria

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.”

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Author:Cal Thomas

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

Enough Desirable Dungeons Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”

Thinking Stills Greater Masters Remains Slave Social Contract

Book:On the Social Contract

Source: On the Social Contract

“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 to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts.”

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Author:Robert Higgs

“But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?”

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Author: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 contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.”

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.”

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Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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 social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“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 are condemning good people to death.”

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Author:Tammy Bruce

“The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.”

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Book:On the Social Contract

Source: On the Social Contract

“War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders”

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Book:On the Social Contract

Source: On the Social Contract

“In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.”

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Book:The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

Source: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

“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 to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.”

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Author: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 single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.”

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Author:Charles Peguy

“The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“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.”

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Author: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; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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

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Author:David Korten

“Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.”

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Author:Chuck Hagel

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