2369 | If we seek peace and defend ourselves, we must compromise on our rights [Hobbes] |
19918 | Forming a society meant following reason, and giving up dangerous appetites and mutual harm [Spinoza] |
19919 | People only give up their rights, and keep promises, if they hope for some greater good [Spinoza] |
19921 | Once you have given up your rights, there is no going back [Spinoza] |
19925 | In democracy we don't abandon our rights, but transfer them to the majority of us [Spinoza] |
19929 | Everyone who gives up their rights must fear the recipients of them [Spinoza] |
19928 | No one, in giving up their power and right, ceases to be a human being [Spinoza] |
19932 | The early Hebrews, following Moses, gave up their rights to God alone [Spinoza] |
19873 | We all own our bodies, and the work we do is our own [Locke] |
19884 | There is only a civil society if the members give up all of their natural executive rights [Locke] |
19794 | If we all give up all of our rights together to the community, we will always support one another [Rousseau] |
7241 | In society man loses natural liberty, but gains a right to civil liberty and property [Rousseau] |
19806 | We alienate to society only what society needs - but society judges that, not us [Rousseau] |
21084 | In the contract people lose their rights, but immediately regain them, in the new commonwealth [Kant] |
21065 | You can't make a contract renouncing your right to make contracts! [Kant] |