Contract Quotes
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English Translation: We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human and animal.
gregory colbert— "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery" in Photo (March 2006, No. 427)
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies – not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.
ha-joon chang— The Guardian, "The root of Europe's riots", 28 September 2012.
It is true, that a Law of contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
edward jenks— Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 66
Averbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
— Attributed. Quoted in A Scott Berg Goldwyn (1989).
Baseball is a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited co-operation in their mutual interest.
— 1976 The Joys of Sport, pt.1.
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
john selden— TableTalk (published1689).
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.
preston manning— Chapter Three, Adventures in the Marketplace, p. 55
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
thomas moore— Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
Three years ago, around Christmas, when she was starring in The King and I in London, Mum was diagnosed with cancer. Elaine thought she should come out of the show, but Mum wanted her to finish her contract. That was very hard for Elaine, having to go on stage night after night knowing she wanted to be with Mum.
elaine paige— Marion Billings in "Relative Values: Elaine Paige, singer, and her sister, Marion" by Sue Fox in The Times (23 May 2004)
Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. … Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.
james richardson— #48 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
People’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group. … Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we’re going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you’ve got to raise your standard. And that's the beauty of life.
anthony robbins— At an Unleash the Power Within seminar, on video at The Next Level Newsletter (September 2005)
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.
Bill Bryson— Pages 446-447, footnote
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
Peter Drucker— p.387 (The Practice of Management (1954))
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
felix frankfurter— Dissenting, Priebe and Sons v. United States, 332 U.S. 407, 420 (1947).
Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway.
william ford gibson— On Turner, in Ch. 1
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me."
Plutarch— Life of Solon.
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
bertrand russell— Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments.
There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
harlan f. stone— Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, 632 (1936).
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 10 (The Prime Minister (1876))
In the United States one cannot sell himself as a peon or slave -- the law is fixed and established to protect the weak-minded, the poor, the miserable. Men will sometimes sell themselves for a meal of victuals or contract with another who acts as surety on his [sic] bond to work out the amount of the bond upon his [sic] release from jail. Any such contract is positively null and void and the procuring and causing of such contract to be made violates these statutes.
— Attorney General Francis Biddle (1941). "Circular No. 3591, Re: Involuntary Servitude, Slavery, and Peonage." Francis Biddle to All United States Attorneys, Dec. 12, 1941, File 50-821, Record Group 60, Department of Justice, National Archives.
The primary office and purpose of a bill of lading, although by mercantile law and usage it is a symbol of the right of property in the goods, is to express the terms of the contract between the shipper and the shipowner.
— Lord Selborne, L.C., Glyn, Mills & Co. v. East and West India Dock Co. (1882), 7 App. Cas. 596; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 19.
Judicial decision on one contract can rarely help us to the understanding of another.
— Lord O'Hagan, Rhodes v. Forwood (1876), L. R. 1 Ap. Ca. 275.
A contract requires two parties to it, and a man in one character can, with difficulty, contract with himself in another character.
— Sir John Rornilly, M.R., Collinson v. Lister (1855), 20 Beav. 370; 24 L.J. Ch. 766.
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.
Allan Bloom— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 177
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical .
— George Bernard Shaw in: Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: collected plays with their prefaces, Bodley Head, 1973, p.64
We regard an action of contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.
edward jenks— Chapter X, Contract And Tort, p. 132
Farrell’s other eleven defenses are The PMS Defense:;; The Husband Defense (Warren, I don’t quite know how to summarize this one not sure I get it); The ‘Battered Woman Syndrome’ Defense, aka Learned Helplessness; ‘The Depressed Mother’ Defense:;; The ‘Mothers Don’t Kill’ Defense:;; The ‘Children Need Their Mother’ Defense:;; The ‘Blame-The-Father, Understand-The-Mother’ Defense:;; The ‘My Child, My Right To Abuse It’ Defense:;; The Plea Bargain Defense:;; The Svengali Defense:;; and The contract Killing Defense.
warren farrell— Chapter 12. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
warren farrell— p.281. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
It is true, that a Law of contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
— Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 66 (A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912))
