Quote of the Day: A Contractual Life
The contracts are here not to guide my steps through the world, but to warn me against straying.Verlyn Klinkenborg writing about the multitude of contracts we encounter on a daily basis.
Actually, contracts do both. They create rights as well as duties. Like white lines on a highway, contracts establish boundaries. They keep us from bumping into each other and allow us to move quickly from point A to B. It’s unfortunate when people view them as limiting devices instead of facilitating devices. There would be a lot more problems if we didn’t have those little white lines.