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 biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.
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People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
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Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.
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Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
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Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
