Quotes about Social contract

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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by — Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
Society doesn't officially recognize friendship as an institution in the way it recognizes sexual relationships, so ther — Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
When you're a child, your best friend in the world is the kid who lives next door. It doesn't occur to you then that thi — Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even t — Dane Whalen
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybod — Lysander Spooner
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, — Robert Higgs
Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is th — Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether th — Jacob Burckhardt, Judgments on History and Historians
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want — Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance