William Ernest Hocking Quotes

#1. Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

William Ernest Hocking

#2. Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

William Ernest Hocking

#3. I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

#4. The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Brian O'Driscoll

#5. Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

William Ernest Hocking

#6. The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

William Ernest Hocking

#7. Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

William Ernest Hocking

#8. Principle II:;: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

William Ernest Hocking

#9. Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

William Ernest Hocking

#10. I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Jimmy Carter

#11. Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

Charlotte Rampling

#12. However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,
i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

William Ernest Hocking

#13. Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

William Ernest Hocking

#14. There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both Qur'an and telephone directory returned to His mouth in the same inhalation of smoke.

Anthony Marra

#15. The person who thinks dogs can't talk doesn't want to learn a second language.

Mark Winik

#16. Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

William Ernest Hocking

#17. Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Julie Garwood

#18. Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

William Ernest Hocking

#19. Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Natasha Josefowitz

#20. It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Amanda Quick

#21. I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Paul Auster

#22. However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations ... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Rumi

#23. Role model? I don't have one. I guess.

Aster Argent

#24. It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

Gena Showalter

#25. Art is life, plus caprice.

William Ernest Hocking

#26. No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

William Ernest Hocking

#27. Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Maajid Nawaz

#28. He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47

William L. Shirer

#29. We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

William Ernest Hocking

#30. And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

William Ernest Hocking

#31. Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

William Ernest Hocking

#32. When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.

Debasish Mridha

#33. It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

William Ernest Hocking