Social Contract Theory

Famous quotes containing the words social, contract and/or theory:

“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can’t see a painting.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)