William Ernest Hocking Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
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Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
