Contract Quotes - page 2

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 "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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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." View quote
Plutarch
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. View quote
Isadora Duncan
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Reading is at the beginning of the social contract. View quote
Alberto Manguel
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards. View quote
Elia Kazan
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"--he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform. View quote
Peter Drucker
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. View quote
Peter Drucker
We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one. (Allan Bloom)
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. View quote
Preston Manning
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. View quote
Robert Wagner
I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. View quote
Alex Berenson
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer. View quote
Conan O'Brien
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' View quote
Conan O'Brien
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. View quote
Helen Reddy
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. (Terry Southern)
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. View quote
Tom Brokaw
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. View quote
Esther Williams
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. View quote
Alexa Ray Joel
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! View quote
Angela Lansbury