Social Agreement Quotes

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

… by consenting with others to make one body-politic under government, a man puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it.

I'm not the only one that's joined in the Maro Itoje song, to be honest with you!

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

A manifesto is different from a magazine.

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

Only basic agreement on the major objectives of the state can provide a society with a firm basis for democracy.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.