#compact

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#benefits #compact #deal #depend #fix

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. ↗

— George Mason

#civil #community #compact #every #general

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#american #articles #compact #contributions #discs

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. ↗

— Epicurus

#harm #harmed #justice #kind

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#compact #conquest #does #neither #posterity

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system. ↗

— Paul Parker

#compact #many #more #skiers #skiing

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. ↗

— Edward Felten

#copy #disc #i #i think #problems

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority