William Ernest Hocking Quotes
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
