William Ernest Hocking Quotes

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

William Ernest Hocking

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• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Lucky

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Never
  • Keep
  • Conversations

• How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Remember
  • Suicide
  • Solution

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Change
  • Days

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Artist

• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Child
  • Need

• Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Humanity

• The public library is where I studied. It’s where my grandfather taught himself English.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • English
  • Library
  • Grandfather

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Almost

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Trying
  • Reason
  • Artist

• Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

  

  Emilia Lanier
  • Pain
  • Challenge
  • Liberty

• For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Modern
  • Empty
  • Sovereignty