Quotes About Social contracts

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

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.

Conservatives believe in unchosen obligations (pieties), whereas classical liberals think that the only source of obligation is choice.

Every relation forms its own defined and non-defined rules.

People have long been willing to trade freedoms for economic prosperity, which is where a compelling link to the promises (though not generally delivered realities) of neoliberalism becomes visible.

We have the three As instead: allies, aides and acquaintances. Or in other words: those we barter with, those we buy and those we acknowledge because it suits us to do so

It's about a crucial era during which old regimes fell, new leaders emerged, new social contracts were forged between strangers, the topography of cities changed, and the upstarts roamed the earth.

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.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

To me, party platforms are contracts with the people.

As I have said, the social contract is not the same in Catalonia as it is in France; superficially it is rougher in some ways, but beneath the surface it is often far more friendly, direct, and indeed more sensitive.

The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.

Necesitamos una economía mundial plural en la cual los Estados-nación conserven la suficiente autonomía para elaborar sus propios contratos sociales y desarrollar sus propias estrategias económicas.

7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine"—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless they receive something in return, even if what they receive is social status. 8. The principle of moralistic punishment—I'll punish you if you do not scratch my back after I have scratched yours—is universal; people do not long tolerate free riders who continually take but almost never give.

Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”